Making rural Australia : an economic history of technical and institutional creativity, 1788-1860 / Geoff Raby
- Bib ID:
- 2483649
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- Author:
- Raby, Geoff
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- Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1996
- xiii, 217 p. [8] p. of plates : ill., facsim. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195534204
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- Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part One: A Land Transformed: Technical Innovations And Adaptation:
- 1. No 'free lunches'
- 2. 'Wasting' the land
- 3. Judging the judges
- 4. Equipping the farm
- 5. Adding value on the station
- Part Two: Beyond The Market: Institutional Innovations And Adaptation:
- 6. Taking collective action
- 7. Supplying public goods
- Conclusion: Creativity in early Australia
- Appendix: A note on sources for technical change in farming
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 189-206.
- Subject:
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- Agricultural innovations -- Australia -- Congresses
- Agriculture -- Technology transfer -- Australia -- History
- Agricultural industries -- Australia -- History
- Australia -- Economic conditions -- 1788-1900
- Rural and regional affairs
- Economic conditions
- Technological change
- Agricultural industries
- History, 1801-1900
- History, Pre-1801
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