Author: WEST, JOHN: ADAMS, JOHN; (Edited by Patricia Fitzgerald Ratcliff).
Title: John West's Union Of The Colonies: Essays on Federation published under the pseudonym of John Adams in 1854.
Description: Demy 8vo; pp. xiv, 115; coloured portrait frontispiece, text with several b/w. illustrations, chronology, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, fine copy. Launceston; Queen Victoria Museum and Art gallery; 2000. `The first major step on the road to Australian federation was not, as is sometimes thought, the formation by Henry Parkes, J. D. Lang and others of the Sydney-Australian League. The true genesis of Australian federation is to found in the formation of the Australian League which initially comprised Victoria and Tasmania but later included New South Wales and South Australia. West's role was central. He founded the precursor to the League, the Launceston Association, coined the League's motto 'Australians are One', designed the national flag.This volume makes an important contribution on several levels.'

Keywords: Australian General History Local History Tasmania Federation Biographies