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Tom Price : from stonecutter to premier / Stephanie McCarthy.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCarthy, Stephanie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Price, Tom, 1852-1909.
- Price, Tom.
- Statesmen--Australia--South Australia--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- South Australia--Politics and government.
- South Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (430 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How is it possible that an impoverished Welsh stonecutter could rise to the position of the first Labor Premier of South Australia? Within three decades of immigrating to South Australia, Tom as master mason would carve the columns of Parliament House before entering its chambers as a politician, feared by the conservatives and loved by the people.
- Contents:
- Tom Price
- About the author
- Title page
- Imprint
- Contents page 1
- Contents page 2
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One: 17th-19th Century: Tom's Ancestors
- Chapter Two: 1853-1880: Tom's Youth in Liverpool
- Chapter Three: 1780s-1883: Annie Lloyd
- Chapter Four: 1883-1889: The First Years in Australia
- Chapter Five: 1890-1893: Tom Finds His Political Feet
- Chapter Six: 1894: Village Settlements and Women's Suffrage
- Chapter Seven: 1895: The Libel Plot to Destroy Tom and Labor
- Chapter Eight: 1896-1897: Landmark Election and Fears for Federation
- Chapter Nine: 1898: Tom Jones and Labor's Growing Rift with Kingston
- Chapter Ten: 1899: Political Upheaval and Leadership of the ULP
- Chapter Eleven: 1900: Tom Jones Betrayed, Federal Aspirations
- Chapter Twelve: 1901: Federation, Tom's Trip to New Zealand with the Royals
- Chapter Thirteen: 1902: Labor Under the Hammer
- Chapter Fourteen: 1903: Tom Jones Reappears, a Glorious Victory for Federal Labor
- Chapter Fifteen: 1904-1905: Tom Rides Into Battle
- Chapter Sixteen: 1905: Tom Becomes the First Labor Premier of SA
- Chapter Seventeen: 1906: Tom Wages War on the Legislative Council
- Chapter Eighteen: 1906-1907: Tom Takes the Franchise Question to the People
- Chapter Nineteen: 1908: Tom and Annie Visit the Motherland
- Chapter Twenty: 1908-1909: Tom's Fight Against Death
- Epilogue: 1909- : Tom and Annie's Legacy
- References
- Chapter Seven: 1895: The Libel Plot to Destroy Tom and Labor.
- Chapter Eight: 1896-1897: Landmark Election and Fears for Federation
- Chapter Ten: 1899: Political Upheaval, and Tom becomes Leader of the ULP
- Chapter Fourteen: 1903: Tom Jones Reappears, a Glorious Victory for Labor
- Chapter Fifteen: 1904-1905: Tom Rides into Battle
- Bibliography
- Index
- Wakefield Press
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-74305-227-8
- OCLC:
- 954284946
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