Graham Berry and the Making of Colonial Democracy

Grant number: DP130102572 | Funding period: 2013 - 2016

Completed

Abstract

This project offers the first major biography of Graham Berry - Victoria's leading statesman of the nineteenth century. It uses Berry's life and career as a parliamentarian, newspaper proprietor, party-builder, radical orator, and federationist as a means of better understanding the development and significance of Australian colonial democracy.

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