British Imperialism and Australia 1783–1833

<p><em>British Imperialism and Australia</em> (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.</p>