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Imperial theory and colonial pragmatism : Charles Harper, economic development and agricultural co-operation in Australia /
This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia, helped build public capital, drive economic development and impact political arrangements. In the case of colonial Western Australia, the story of agricultural co-operation is inseparabl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought series.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia, helped build public capital, drive economic development and impact political arrangements. In the case of colonial Western Australia, the story of agricultural co-operation is inseparable from that of the story of Charles Harper. Harper was a self-starting, pioneering frontiersman who became a political, commercial and agricultural leader in the British Empire's most isolated colony during the second half of the Victorian era. He was convinced of the successful economic future of Western Australia but also pragmatic enough to appreciate that the unique challenges facing the colony were only going to be resolved by the application of unorthodox thinking. Using Harper's life as a foil, this book examines Imperial economic thinking in relation to the co-operative form of economic organisation, the development of public capital, and socialism. It uses this discu ssion to demonstrate the transfer of socialistic ideas from the centre of the Empire to the farthest reaches of the Antipodes where they were used to provide a rhetorical crutch in support of purely pragmatic co-operative establishments. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3319623257 9783319623252 3319623249 9783319623245 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |