An Economic History of Australia

Table of Contents

Preface
Part I. Convicts, Wool, and Gold, 1788–1860:
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 1851–60
Part II. Colonial Particularism, 1860–1900:
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.

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