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Summary
Table of Contents
Preface | |
From the Foundation of Settlement to the Crossing of the Mountains | |
Introduction to the first period | |
The assignment system | |
Musters | |
Wages and working hours | |
The currency | |
Land policy | |
The genesis of the wool industry in Australia | |
The industries of the period | |
Trade and prices | |
From the Crossing of the Mountains to the Abolition of the Assignment System | |
Introduction to the second period | |
Convict labour. Assignment | |
Free labour | |
Immigration | |
The occupation of land | |
Agricultural and pastoral pursuits | |
The currency | |
Trade and prices | |
From the Abolition of the Assignment System to the Discovery of Gold | |
Introduction to the third period | |
Transportation | |
Immigration | |
Land legislation in New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia | |
Land legislation and settlement in South Australia, and the Wakefield theory of colonization | |
Labour and wages | |
Prices | |
Financial crisis of 1841, 1842, and 1843 | |
Industries | |
From the Discovery of Gold to the Introduction of Free Selection of Land before Survey | |
Introduction to the fourth period | |
The end of the convict system | |
The discovery of gold in Australia | |
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