Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement … between development and the environment, and Australia's interaction with the international economy. Written by a team of … eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past …

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 …