Forming a Colonial Economy: Australia 1810-1850This book is a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes. Noel Butlin's analysis of the developing economy provides background discussion of eighteenth-century British social, economic and military history, and detailed demographic analysis of the Australian population over sixty years. A key focus of the book is the extent to which the economy was independent or externally driven. Forming a Colonial Economy does for Australian history from 1810 to 1850 what Noel Butlin's previous landmark economic histories have done for the period from the 1860s to the 1890s. |
Contents
2 | 14 |
2 | 22 |
4 | 29 |
The Colonial Population Stock | 32 |
2 | 36 |
The Civil Status of the Female Workforce | 41 |
9 | 43 |
OccupationalIndustrial Comparisons Convict Population | 49 |
3 | 88 |
The Colonial Australian Economy 18101840A Historical | 95 |
181040 | 107 |
3 | 128 |
181040 | 137 |
181040 | 197 |
Public Funding of Colonial Development 17881850 | 218 |
Instability and Economic Fluctuations with Special Reference to | 223 |
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