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Settlers and the Agrarian Question: Capitalism in Colonial Australia,Used
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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 nineteenthcentury 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 urbancommercial forces contested the graziers' monopoly, of the landed economy. Embedded in the conflict among settler classes was an international dimension, involving a juxtaposition of laissezfaire and mercantilist phases of British political economy. Professor McMichael argues that the transition from a patriarchal woolgrowing colony to a liberalnationalist 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 nineteenthcentury Australia.
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