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Andrew Inglis Clark: From Colonial Patriot to Radical Nationalist
Citation
Reynolds, H, Andrew Inglis Clark: From Colonial Patriot to Radical Nationalist, Papers on Parliment, 61, (May) pp. 21-27. ISSN 1031-976X (2014) [Non Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Andrew Inglis Clark was a nationalist and a republican. He wished to cut the ties linking the Australian
colonies with imperial Britain. The English author and politician Charles Dilke observed in 1890 that
Clark was ‘a great admirer of American institutions and literature, and an anti-imperialist in his opinions
upon the future relations between the component portions of the Empire’.
These ideas meant that
Clark stood out among his contemporaries—those men who dominated the colonial parliaments
during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and who both led the federal movement and crafted
the Australian Constitution. This was true even when the comparison is made with the native-born
leaders of his generation, men like Barton, Deakin, Kingston and Forrest. In his book The Sentimental
Nation, John Hirst observed that among the members of the National Australasian Convention in
1891, ‘the inner group of founding fathers’, Clark was the only republican.
Item Details
Item Type: | Non Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | AI Clark, history, republic, Australia, colonialism |
Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical studies |
Research Field: | Australian history |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Understanding past societies |
Objective Field: | Understanding Australia's past |
UTAS Author: | Reynolds, H (Professor Henry Reynolds) |
ID Code: | 121021 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2017-09-07 |
Last Modified: | 2017-09-07 |
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