Table of Contents

Part I. Introductory and General: 1. Discovery of Australia and arrangements made for founding a colony; Part II. New South Wales: 2. Foundation of New South Wales; 3. New South Wales as a penal colony; 4. Industrial crisis of 1843 and discovery of gold; 5. The Robertson Lands Acts and the Chinese trouble; 6. Bushranging epoch. The O'Farrell case; 7. New South Wales from 1869 to 1888; 8. Recent history. Labour troubles; Part III. Victoria: 9. Voyages of discovery; 10. The Hentys at Portland Bay; 11. Batman and Fawkner; 12. Separation from New South Wales; 13. Discovery of gold; 14. Eureka Stockade; 15. Responsible government; 16. Recent history; Part IV. Queensland: 17. Beginnings of settlement; 18. Explorations; 19. Separation from New South Wales; 20. Recent history; Part V. South Australia: 21. Foundation of the Province of South Australia; 22. Representative government; Part VI. Tasmania: 23. Discovery and settlement; 24. Bushranging troubles and native difficulty; 25. Abolition of transportation; 26. Responsible government; Part VII. Western Australia: 27. From first settlement to abolition of transportation; 28. Responsible government; 29. Gold discoveries; 30. Explorations; Part VIII. Industrial History: 31. First industrial period, 1788–1821; 32. Second industrial period, 1821–1838; 33. Third industrial period, 1838–1852; 34. Fourth industrial period, 1852–1858; 35. Fifth industrial period, 1858–1872; 36. Sixth industrial period, 1872–1893. New South Wales and Victoria; 37. Sixth industrial period, 1872–1893. Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia; 38. The great strike of 1890 and the Broken Hill strike of 1892; Part IX. Australasia of To-Day: 39. Federation; 40. The Australian Commonwealth; 41. General problems of Australia and Tasmania. Statistics; Index.

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In one of the first comprehensive histories of Australia, Coghlan charts the country's development from penal colony to urbanised democracy.