Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement … eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past … into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast …

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 …