ISBN:
9780511552311
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xi, 252 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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DDC:
330.994/01
Keywords:
Aborigines
;
Geschichte
;
Wirtschaft
;
Wirtschaft. Geschichte
;
Aboriginal Australians / Economic conditions
;
Aboriginal Australians / History
;
Aboriginal Australians / Government relations
;
Economic history
;
Wirtschaft
;
Ökonomische Anthropologie
;
Aborigines
;
Geschichte
;
Australien
;
Australia / Economic conditions
;
Aborigines
;
Wirtschaft
;
Geschichte
;
Aborigines
;
Ökonomische Anthropologie
Abstract:
It is a common perception that the influence of the Aborigines on British settlement in Australia was minimal. The economic significance of Aboriginal culture for the colonisers is rarely addressed and until now, has not been closely studied by an economic historian. This imaginative book presents a concept of a pre-European Aboriginal economy. It shows how an Aboriginal presence over millennia shaped the local environment and responded to it, so that the Aboriginal economy developed into an ordered system of decision-making able to satisfy the wants of the people. The book closely analyses the processes which allowed economic control of a country to pass from Aboriginal to European hands within 60 years of settlement. Professor Butlin's presentation of the contrast between one of the world's most ancient economies and one of its youngest is both illuminating and exciting
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. I. The palaeoeconomic history of Aboriginal migration -- 1. Introduction. 2. Conventional views and alternative approaches. 3. Non-Malthusian issues: pathways and innovations. 4. Scarcity possibilities in Aboriginal migration. 5. Some possible migration scenarios. 6. A synthesis -- pt. II. Development, structure and function of Aboriginal economy -- 7. Introduction. 8. The process of early settlement. 9. Variety in the precontact Aboriginal economy. 10. The nature and function of Aboriginal economy. 11. Dynamic elements in the Aboriginal economy -- pt. III. Disease, economics and demography -- 12. Introduction. 13. The problem of an exposed population. 14. Re-estimating precontact populations. 15. Turning the models around -- pt. IV. The establishment of a bridgehead economy: 1788-1810 -- 16. Introduction. 17. History and theory. 18. Free lunches, antipodean style -- pt. V. The takeover process: 1788-1850 -- 19. Introduction. 20. British development in the long run
Description / Table of Contents:
21. The hunter gatherers of empire. 22. British, American and Macassan presence in the takeover. 23. The major players. 24. Aborigines and British law. 25. The economics of takeover. 26. The composition and demographic impact of disease. 27. The interaction of disease with resistance, integration and submission -- 28. Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Preliminary model/checklist of Aboriginal migration to Australia -- Appendix 2: NOAA depth contour maps
Note:
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511552311
URL:
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