The Oxford History of Australia: 1901-1942, the succeeding ageIn 1901 the separate Australian colonies came together in a Commonwealth. Institutions were fashioned to meet the needs and aspirations of a nation, markets extended, industries enlarged. Over the next forty years Australians pursued schemes of material and social progress through war and economic crisis. This book locates these events within their international and imperial context. Like other regions of white settlement, Australia prospered as a pastoral and agricultural producer - yet it aspired to industrial self-sufficiency. It drew its financial and human capital from Britain and was bound to the parent country by bonds of trade, culture and sentiment - yet it yearned for autonomous nationhood. Four decades of endeavour merely demonstrated the extent of its dependence. This is a narrative history. It draws on the experience of diverse individuals to illustrate larger patterns, and it traces links between social, economic and political processes. But above all, it proceeds from the conviction that the historian must tell a story with purpose. |
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... overseas industralist , he could supply only a third of the country's manufactured needs . Thus there was more scope for the production of food , clothing and furniture than there was for specialized machinery . In processing primary ...
... overseas industralist , he could supply only a third of the country's manufactured needs . Thus there was more scope for the production of food , clothing and furniture than there was for specialized machinery . In processing primary ...
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... overseas manufacturers ; ' For us to introduce the " Owen machine " would be like putting a racehorse in a dray to do dray work ' , explained the leading manufacturer of glass bottles when asked why he could not achieve the same ...
... overseas manufacturers ; ' For us to introduce the " Owen machine " would be like putting a racehorse in a dray to do dray work ' , explained the leading manufacturer of glass bottles when asked why he could not achieve the same ...
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... overseas commitments , but even so its reserves continued to disappear . The Australian currency was losing value against sterling . Worse was to follow . The prices of wheat and wool , Aus- tralia's principal export commodities , were ...
... overseas commitments , but even so its reserves continued to disappear . The Australian currency was losing value against sterling . Worse was to follow . The prices of wheat and wool , Aus- tralia's principal export commodities , were ...
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