Politics, Patronage and Public Works: The Administration of New South Wales Volume 1, 1842-1900

How did New South Wales work in the second half of the nineteenth century. This history analyses government structures, functions, processes and personnel from 1842 to 1900, in this first of two volumes, commissioned by the State Records Authority of New South Wales. Hilary Golder draws on parliamentary papers, politicians’ private correspondence and the rich resource of surviving government records to attempt a more sympathetic reading of the administrative challenges in a growing colony.