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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Main Author: Gilchrist, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought series.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
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505 0 |a Chapter 1: The Long Stagnation -- Chapter 2: Visions of English Co-operation in the Victorian Age: Western Australia's Intellectual Inheritance -- Chapter 3: Imperial Demands, Local Imperatives -- Chapter 4: Charles Harper: A Life -- Chapter 5: Bending Co-operation to the Western Australian Economic Problem -- Chapter 6: Australian Colonial Socialism in Word and Deed: The Socialisation of Economic Problems in Colonial Australia -- Chapter 7: A Step Too Far: Western Australian State Socialism (1918-1939). 
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