Educational centralization and the rise of the legislative state: school governance in Tasmania and New South Wales, 1830-1885

This study of the emergence of centralized systems of school governance in nineteenth century Tasmania and New South Wales addresses an age-old question in Australian history writing. The decision to re-enter this debate is guided by a belief that existing histories have not sufficiently accounted for the relationship between educational change and the emergence of the modem Australian state. This failure to explore the state