Forming a Colonial Economy

By Noel George Butlin

Book Overview

This book is a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes. Noel Butlin's analysis of the developing economy provides background discussion of eighteenth-century British social, economic and military history, and detailed demographic analysis of the Australian population over sixty years. A key focus of the book is the extent to which the economy was independent or externally driven. Forming a Colonial Economy does for Australian history from 1810 to 1850 what Noel Butlin's previous landmark economic histories have done for the period from the 1860s to the 1890s.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521445817
• ISBN13: 9780521445818
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"