Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture

by Angela Woollacott

The 1820s to the 1860s were a foundational period in Australian history, arguably at least as important as Federation. Industrialization was transforming Britain, but the southern colonies were pre-industrial, with economies driven by pastoralism, agriculture, mining, whaling and sealing, commerce, and the construction trades. Convict transportation provided the labour on which the first settlements depended before it was brought to a staggered end,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199641803
• ISBN13: 9780199641802
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"