Settlers and the Agrarian Question: Capitalism in Colonial Australia

ISBN: 9780521523165 出版年：1984 页码：322 Philip McMichael Cambridge University Press

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.