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Settlers and the Agrarian Question - Capitalism in Colonial Australia (Paperback, Revised)
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Settlers and the Agrarian Question - Capitalism in Colonial Australia (Paperback, Revised)
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This book traces the formation of Australian colonial society and
economy within the context of the changing fortunes of British
hegemony in the nineteenth-century world economy. Australia's
transition from conservative origins as a penal colony supporting a
grazier class oriented to export production, to liberal agrarian
capitalism, was not a simple reflex of imperial setting.
Domestically, the 'agrarian question' - who should control the land
and to what end? - was the central political struggle of this
period, as urban-commercial forces contested the graziers'
monopoly, of the landed economy. Embedded in the conflict among
settler classes was an international dimension, involving a
juxtaposition of laissez-faire and mercantilist phases of British
political economy. Professor McMichael argues that the transition
from a patriarchal wool-growing colony to a liberal-nationalist
form of capitalist development is best understood through a
systematic analysis of the effect of the imperial politicoeconomic
relationship on the social and political forces within
nineteenth-century Australia.
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