This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a … with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity …

organisation. Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is a professor of heritage and digital history at the University of New England, Australia. He …-transportation and the building of colonial capital -- Chapter 2: Approaches, Sources and Methods -- Chapter 3: Convict Eastern Australia … classic in Australian and imperial history.' ---Clare Anderson, University of Leicester 'In Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael …

This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia … Australia, the story of agricultural co-operation is inseparable from that of the story of Charles Harper. Harper was a self … during the second half of the Victorian era. He was convinced of the successful economic future of Western Australia but also …

Cover; Why Australia Prospered; THE PRINCETON ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD; Title; Copyright; Contents; List …This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a … with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity …

the key trends and drivers for innovation and regional advantage in Australia. The book provides a convincing argument …