Imperial Theory and Colonial Pragmatism Charles Harper, Economic Development and Agricultural Co-operation in Australia /

• Main Author: Gilchrist, David J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought Series
• Subjects: Islands of the Pacific > History.; Imperialism.; Development economics.; Agricultural economics.; Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Australasian History.; Agricultural Economics.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Development Economics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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).