George Higinbotham

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-86287-628-6
Verlag: Federation Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Gewicht: 630 g

George Higinbotham's extreme and uncompromising radical views and mesmerizing oratory have made him an iconic figure in Victorias colonial history of the darling of the liberals and the left. John Bennett has written a major re-assessment of this giant who was a dominating figure from the 1850s until his death in 1892. Higinbotham was successively a gold digger who found no gold; a barrister who found few briefs; a crusading editor of Melbournes Argus; an independent member of Parliament who opposed political parties and ferociously attacked the squatter dominated Legislative Council and the Colonial Office; an overtly democratic Attorney-General who advocated government without supply; and Chief Justice of Victoria when his political dreams all foundered. Yet he drew others to him as a Pied Piper. He was a mass of contradictions. Extraordinarily charitable to beggars, he treated his family miserably. A failure in achievement, he retained an enormous popularity which has endured for over a century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, J M

Weitere Mitwirkende

Blainey AC, Professor Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS Foreword by Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC Acknowledgements List of Illustrations “Dramatis Personae†“School Life in Those Days was a Rough One†“Higinbotham is a Most Estimable Man, But …†“His Short Experience in the House†Attorney-General 1863-1868 “Absolute Political Equality to All†“The Destiny of Our Colonies is Independence†Puisne Judge 1880-1886 Chief Justice 1886-1892 Toy v. Musgrove (1888) “Her Majesty’s Chief Magistrate in Victoria†“Perplexed by Paradox, Stunned by Contradictions†Abbreviations/ Notes/ Index