Secondhand Australian Social & Economic History Bargain Book Box SP2973

Secondhand Australian Social & Economic History Bargain Book Box SP2973

Fifteen books on Australian economic, social, and political history — with a strong Victorian-era emphasis: the gold rush, the land boom, the Port Phillip district, the rise of the labour movement, and the story of Melbourne itself. Geoffrey Blainey, Robin Gollan, Michael Cannon, and A.G.L. Shaw all here.

1. Cattlemen & Huts of the High Plains — The history of the high country graziers and the distinctive culture of the Victorian high plains, from first settlement through the twentieth century.
2. Georgiana — Brenda Niall — A biography of Georgiana McCrae, colonial diarist and pioneer: one of the most vivid firsthand accounts of early Melbourne society.
3. Attitudes to Non-European Immigration — A.T. Yarwood — A scholarly examination of Australian immigration policy and the racial attitudes that shaped it from Federation to the postwar years.
4. Sleepers Wake! Technology and the Future of Work — Barry Jones — Barry Jones's influential 1982 work on automation, unemployment, and the coming transformation of work. Prescient and widely debated.
5. Strikes: Studies in Twentieth Century Australian Social History — ed. John Iremonger, John Merritt & Graeme Osborne — Case studies of major Australian industrial disputes and what they reveal about class, power, and the labour movement.
6. Economic Growth of Australia 1788–1821 — ed. G.I. Abbott & N.B. Nairn — Scholarly essays on the economic foundations of the early colony: land, labour, trade, and the transition from convict settlement to economic enterprise.
7. Radical and Working Class Politics: A Study of Eastern Australia 1850–1910 — Robin Gollan — Gollan's classic account of the rise of the labour movement in eastern Australia, from the gold rushes to the formation of the Labor Party.
8. Western Port Ferries: Past and Present — Arthur E. Woodley — The history of ferry services on Western Port Bay, with portraits of the captains and vessels that worked the route.
9. Gipps–La Trobe Correspondence 1839–1846 — ed. A.G.L. Shaw — The official correspondence between Governor Gipps in Sydney and Charles La Trobe in Melbourne: a primary source for the early history of the Port Phillip District.
10. The Land Boomers — Michael Cannon — Cannon's vivid account of Melbourne's 1880s land boom and the spectacular crash that followed. One of the great stories of colonial greed and its consequences.
11. The Victorians Settling (Anniversary History) — A commemorative history of Victorian settlement from the Victorian Anniversary History series.
12. A History of the Port Phillip District: Victoria Before Separation — A.G.L. Shaw — Shaw's definitive account of the Port Phillip District from its founding in 1835 to Victoria's separation from NSW in 1851.
13. The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining — Geoffrey Blainey — Blainey's landmark history of the Australian mining industry from the 1850s gold rushes to the mid-twentieth century. Still essential reading.
14. Essays in Economic History of Australia 1788–1939 — ed. James Griffin — Academic essays covering the major themes of Australian economic development over a century and a half.
15. Melbourne: The Biography of a City — W.H. Newnham — A city biography tracing Melbourne's growth from frontier settlement to major metropolis.