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A Free Country: Australians’ Search for Utopia 1861–1901

David Kemp

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A new democracy observes the birth of modern politics.

A Free Country: Australians' Search for Utopia 1861-1901 tells how Australians, inspired by their new democracy, attempted to use their freedom to build a society without social and economic conflict. As the second book in a landmark five-volume Australian Liberalism series, A Free Country shows the successes and misste ...more

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Published April 2nd 2019 by Melbourne University Publishing

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Jul 25, 2020 Andrew Norton rated it really liked it

David Kemp’s The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788–1860, his first volume of an Australian political history seen from a liberal perspective, told a surprisingly positive story. The British settlers who arrived in 1788 established a penal colony; an inauspicious start for a liberal society. But by the book’s conclusion in 1860 Australia had, for its European residents, transformed itself into a largely free society. The Australian colonies were also early experiments in dem ...more

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