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The invisible state : the formation of the Australian state, 1788-1901
- Title
- The invisible state : the formation of the Australian state, 1788-1901 / Alastair Davidson.
- Author
- Davidson, Alastair, 1939-
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | KTA .D381 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 329 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm.
- Summary
- This book shows how the judiciary became the most powerful arm of government in Australia.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Australian history
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Australian history.
- Subject
- To 1900
- Constitutional history > Australia
- Representative government and representation > Australia > History
- Judicial power > Australia > History
- Constitutional history
- Judicial power
- Politics and government
- Representative government and representation
- Staatsvorming
- Rechtsgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
- Politique et pouvoir judiciaire > Australie > Histoire
- Régime représentatif > Australie > Histoire
- Australia > Politics and government > To 1900
- Australia
- Australie > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1900
- Australie > Histoire constitutionnelle
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-321) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- 1. Private vices become public benefits -- 2. The under-keepers -- 3. Dispossession -- 4. The house that Jack built -- 5. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? the sovereignty of the law -- 6. The Trojan horse -- 7. 'Suffer little children' -- 8. A state for a continent -- 9. ' the triumph of the people' -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0521366585
- 9780521366588
- LCCN
- 90047202
- OCLC
- ocm22388599
- 22388599
- SCSB-8934943
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library