It is a common perception that the influence of the Aborigines on
British settlement in Australia was minimal. The economic
significance of Aboriginal culture for the colonisers is rarely
addressed and until now, has not been closely studied by an
economic historian. This imaginative book presents a concept of a
pre-European Aboriginal economy. It shows how an Aboriginal
presence over millennia shaped the local environment and responded
to it, so that the Aboriginal economy developed into an ordered
system of decision-making able to satisfy the wants of the people.
The book closely analyses the processes which allowed economic
control of a country to pass from Aboriginal to European hands
within 60 years of settlement. Professor Butlin's presentation of
the contrast between one of the world's most ancient economies and
one of its youngest is both illuminating and exciting.
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