The Progress of Australasia in the Nineteenth Century

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ID23477883
AuthorsT A Coghlan, Timothy Augustine Sir Coghlan, T T Ewing, Tania Ewing
Year2011
Publication date2011-05-04
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueProgress of Australasia in the Nineteenth Century (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139013123
OpenAlexW611026361
Open LibraryOL34469936M
ISBN9781139013123
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Sir Timothy Coghlan (1855–1926) was the statistician for New South Wales from 1886, and is regarded as Australia's first 'Mandarin'. His advice was sought by state and federal governments on matters as diverse as tax, public sanitation and infant mortality. In 1905 he took up an appointment as New South Wales government agent in London, remaining there for the rest of his life. First published in 1903, this was one of the first comprehensive histories of Australia, and it benefits greatly from the author's extensive hard statistical data. In contrast to his later Labour and Industry (also reissued in this series), Coghlan and his co-author, T. T. Ewing (1856–1920), discuss the politics behind progress as much as the economics. Charting the country's development from penal colony to urbanised democracy, they conclude with a wealth of statistical data to endorse the assertion that 'the possibilities for Australia's future are tremendous'.

Assertion · Economic history · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Politics · Sanitation · State (computer science) · Statistician · Australian History and Society · History · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Australasia

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