Author: Charles E. Lyne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Author: Stephen Dando-Collins
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742757987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Henry Parkes received little schooling and worked on a rope-walk, breaking stones, as an ivory and bone turner, ironmonger, labourer and on the wharves before trying business life and ultimately politics. He and his first wife travelled to Australia on an assisted passage. Parkes steadily educated himself, reading voraciously and widely, including all the great poets.

Author: Sir Henry Parkes
Publisher: London Longmans, Green 1892.
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: Noel Bede Nairn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780522840346
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Sir Henry Parkes (G.C.M.G.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Author: Robert Morton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912961160
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Harry Parkes was at the heart of Britain's relations with the Far East from the start of his working life at fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven. Orphaned at the age of five, he went to China on his own as a child and worked his way to the top. God-fearing and fearless, he believed his mission was to bring trade and 'civilisation' to East Asia. In his day, he was seen as both a hero and a monster and is still bitterly resented in China for his part in the country's humiliations at Western hands, but largely esteemed in Japan for helping it to industrialise. Morton's new biography, the first in over thirty years, and benefiting in part from access to the Parkes' family and archives, offers a more intimate and informed profile of the personal and professional life of a Victorian titan and one of Britain's most undiplomatic diplomats in the history of the British Civil Service.

Author: Robert Travers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731810277
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Nicholas Aroney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521888646
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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This book describes how ideas about federalism influenced those who drafted the Australian Constitution.

Author: Gwendolen Swinburne
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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"A Source Book of Australian History" is a concise full history of Australia from the discovery of Tasmania to the National Australian Convention and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia. The book was aimed at students interested in learning the subject. Each chapter has a short synopsis at the beginning to better comprehend the subject.

Author: Sir Henry Parkes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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