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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... wheat , cutting coal or timber , laying bricks or railway sleepers , a labouring job called for the expenditure of immense physical effort over a long working day . Yet no job was without its own particular skill , its own trick of per ...
... wheat , cutting coal or timber , laying bricks or railway sleepers , a labouring job called for the expenditure of immense physical effort over a long working day . Yet no job was without its own particular skill , its own trick of per ...
Page 55
... wheat acreage by 1914. ( The normal arrangement was that the land- owner provided the land , the seed and half the cost of bags and freight ; the farmer contributed horses , equipment and labour , and the wheat cheque was shared ...
... wheat acreage by 1914. ( The normal arrangement was that the land- owner provided the land , the seed and half the cost of bags and freight ; the farmer contributed horses , equipment and labour , and the wheat cheque was shared ...
Page 263
... wheat had slumped to little more than half that he had proposed to guarantee a year earlier and the government had still not established its wheat pool . In the cities there had been ugly scenes when police broke up unemployed demonstra ...
... wheat had slumped to little more than half that he had proposed to guarantee a year earlier and the government had still not established its wheat pool . In the cities there had been ugly scenes when police broke up unemployed demonstra ...
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