Settlers and the agrarian question : foundations of capitalism in colonial Australia
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Settlers and the agrarian question : foundations of capitalism in colonial Australia
Cambridge University Press, 1984
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Bibliography: p. 279-299
Includes index
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This book traces the formation of Australian colonial society and economy within the context of the changing fortunes of British hegemony in the nineteenth-century world economy. Australia's transition from conservative origins as a penal colony supporting a grazier class oriented to export production, to liberal agrarian capitalism, was not a simple reflex of imperial setting. Domestically, the 'agrarian question' - who should control the land and to what end? - was the central political struggle of this period, as urban-commercial forces contested the graziers' monopoly, of the landed economy. Embedded in the conflict among settler classes was an international dimension, involving a juxtaposition of laissez-faire and mercantilist phases of British political economy. Professor McMichael argues that the transition from a patriarchal wool-growing colony to a liberal-nationalist form of capitalist development is best understood through a systematic analysis of the effect of the imperial politicoeconomic relationship on the social and political forces within nineteenth-century Australia.
Table of Contents
- Map of Australia
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1. The social structure of British hegemony
- Part I. The Colonial Economy Enters the World Market (1788-1830): 2. The transition from penal to commercial colony
- 3. The world-economic origins of colonial wool growing
- Part II. The Squatting Phase of Pastoralism (1830s and 1840s): 4. Squatting and colonial politics
- 5. Merchants and growers
- 6. Pastoral enterprise in the colonial economy
- 7. The conservative character of pastoralism
- Part III. Confronting the Agrarian Question (1840-1900): 8. The 1840s crisis and social transition
- 9. Foundations of the agrarian question
- 10. State formation and transformation of the landed economy
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- References
- Index.
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