217pp incl index. Plus 8 pages of b&w photos and illustrations. Making Rural Australia challenges two common by contradictory views of Australian history. One is the 'fatal shore': Australia was a place of horrible destitution and those miserable beginnings set the course for Australia of today. The other is the 'lucky country': European settlement began in a bountiful Arcadia and so wealth and prosperity have simply flowed forth, stifling creativity and technical and scientific endeavour. The book argues that successful European settlement of Australia owed a lot to its prodigious natural resources and to the technical and institutional creativity at the time. V/light wear only.

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Title: Making Rural Australia: an economic history of technical and institutional creativity, 1788-1860
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Melbourne, VIC
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
Binding: Trade Paperback (23cm X 15cm)
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good

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