British Imperialism and Australia (1939) looks at the early economic history of Australia, which towards the end of the period under review became an important field of British Imperial development. The establishment of a peasant economy in New South Wales was attempted half a world away from the imperial architects, but war with revolutionary France interrupted the transportation of convicts and poor freemen, and in doing so gave the scheme a character quite unlike that originally envisaged by Pitt and Sydney.
British Imperialism and Australia (1939) looks at the early economic history of Australia. The establishment of a peasant economy in New South Wales was interrupted by war with revolutionary France, and in doing so gave the scheme a character quite unlike that originally envisaged by Pitt and Sydney.
