1st Edition

History of Australian Land Settlement

By S.H. Roberts Copyright 1969
    480 Pages
    by Routledge

    480 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1969. The original History of Australian Land Settlement, 1788-1920 was published in Melbourne in 1924, when the writer was a young lecturer in British History in the University of Melbourne. As the years and decades went by, more and more work was done to fill in research gaps and there were of necessity many re interpretations. This particularly applied to the initial squatting period and to the then-unknown stage between the gold discoveries and federation. This is a copy of the original version.

    Introduction Part I The Period of Experiments (1788-1831) 1 The Initial Stage (1788-1809) 2 Macquarie (1809-1821) 3 The Extension of Settlement 4 The Conflict of Policies (1820-30) 5 The Outer Settlements 6 The Great Companies 7 Wakefield 8 Wakefield's Influence-Sales 9 Wakefield's Influence-The Convict System 10 Wakefield's Influence-Emigration 11 Wakefield's Influence-South Australia (1830-1850) 12 Wakefield's Influence-Western Australia (1830-1850) Part III The Period of Squatting (1831-1855) 13 Squatting 14 The Squatter's Life 15 The Squatters and the Government 16 The New Squatting Colonies 17 The Definition of the Squatter's Position Part IV The Period of the Emergence of Agriculture (1855-1884) 18 The Transition 19 Free Selection in New South Wales 20 Safeguarded Selection in Victoria 21 Queensland and the Via Media of Grazing Farms 22 South Australia and Goyder's Line 23 Western Australia and Yeomanry Settlement 24 Tasmania and the 'Unsettled Lands' 25 A comparison 1855 and 1884 Part V The Period of Closer Settlement (1884-1920) 26 The Experiments of 1884 and After 27 Co-operative Settlement in the Nineties 28 Repurchase and Qoser Settlement 29 Water and Irrigation Schemes 30 The Northern Territory: Australia's Tropical Experiment 31 Trends

    Biography

    Sir Stephen H. Roberts Formerly Vice-Chancellor University of Sydney