ISBN:
9780511529139
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvi, 304 pages)
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DDC:
306/.32/0994
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte 1788-1901
;
Geschichte 1788-1900
;
Geschichte
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Land tenure / Australia / History / 19th century
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Land settlement / Australia / History / 19th century
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Squatter settlements / Australia / History / 19th century
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Wirtschaft
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Siedlungspolitik
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Agrarpolitik
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Grundeigentum
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Siedlung
;
Australien
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Australien
;
Australien
;
Siedlung
;
Grundeigentum
;
Geschichte 1788-1901
;
Australien
;
Agrarpolitik
;
Geschichte 1788-1901
;
Australien
;
Wirtschaft
;
Geschichte 1788-1900
;
Siedlungspolitik
;
Australien
;
Geschichte 1788-1900
Abstract:
This book traces the formation of Australian colonial society and economy within the context of the changing fortunes of British hegemony in the nineteenth-century world economy. Australia's transition from conservative origins as a penal colony supporting a grazier class oriented to export production, to liberal agrarian capitalism, was not a simple reflex of imperial setting. Domestically, the 'agrarian question' - who should control the land and to what end? - was the central political struggle of this period, as urban-commercial forces contested the graziers' monopoly, of the landed economy. Embedded in the conflict among settler classes was an international dimension, involving a juxtaposition of laissez-faire and mercantilist phases of British political economy. Professor McMichael argues that the transition from a patriarchal wool-growing colony to a liberal-nationalist form of capitalist development is best understood through a systematic analysis of the effect of the imperial politicoeconomic relationship on the social and political forces within nineteenth-century Australia
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511529139
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