An Economic History of Australia

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Originally published in 1930, this book provides an account of Australian economic development from 1788 up until the early twentieth century.

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Preface; Part I. Convicts, Wool, and Gold, 178860: 1. Governor Phillip and the establishment; 2. The New South Wales corps; 3. A conflict of evils; 4. 'Governor Macquarie's bank'; 5. An autocrat in a hurry; 6. John Bull's greater woolsack; 7. Pioneering in the pastoral industry; 8. Shepherding and marketing; 9. Free colonies and assisted migration; 10. From transportation to family life; 11. The gold rushes of 1851; Part II. Colonial Particularism, 186000: 12. 'Unlocking the land' in New South Wales; 13. Agricultural settlement in the southern colonies; 14. Plantation slavery and secession for North Queensland; 15. An apostle of restriction; 16. Inland transport; 17. The land boom; 18. Labour shows fight; 19. The bank smash and economic reconstruction; 20. Back to colonizing; Part III. The Commonwealth: 21. The origins and extension of wage-fixing; 22. Strength and protection; 23. How tariff protection grows; 24. 'Protection all round'; Index.