Only in Australia The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

wages, and even in providing—at the government’s request—work for the unemployed in a time of recession. That Australia was a le ...

No stampede for gold, no pressure on liquidity, had endangered a major bank in Australia until the early 1890s. Minor banks had ...

acquired other ideas. In the new federal parliament that first met in Melbourne in 1901, two of the three political parties usua ...

intake in Canada. It lacked the Dutch inflow in South Africa. For at least 170 years it lacked the more diverse inflow of Europe ...

about 75 per cent of Australia’s white population was male, and in 1851 there were still 138 males for every 100 females, though ...

2.11 The Compass Needle Swings from Britain to Asia The impact of the British Isles on Australia, for more than a century and a ...

It is reasonable to suggest that if, after 1900, there had been a colony covering all tropical Australia, with its own seat of g ...

history of the modern world. But historians cannot readily agree on the question: which exceptional episodes should be applauded ...

3 Theories of Australian Exceptionalism William O. Coleman How to explain the distinguishing, the singular, and the exceptional ...

enlargement of one province clearly need not exclude the enlargement of another. Taking up that truth, this chapter suggests it ...

So much for the fact: what did it spell for the bent of policy regime? Perhaps the decomposition of social structure meant less ...

gentlemanly status; and the prejudices against‘trade’so characteristic of the professions—law, medicine, civil service, and engi ...

lawlessness and corruption. Clearly, this department of life is in fundamental antagonism with the sphere of autonomy as express ...

accepted land grants (Martin 1973). Or, as one voice of 1825 stated,‘when they become free they generally begin business’(Dyster ...

existence of these ballads thanks to some Scottish neighbours of his in Sydney (Hirst 1996). There is an uncomfortable sensation ...

primacy of the same. Contrasts between the two men can be pursued further. To Ward, the material/economic was primary, and the h ...

and will be dominated, just as the physical environment will be dominated by any body with a soul. Hartz’s triumph of mentality ...

Australiaof 1930. Where in Australia, asked Hancock, were the manifest- ations of‘civil society’that would surely be one fruit o ...

‘fighting’‘pushing’‘south...north’(Hancock 1930, pp. 32–3). How, then, could such a raging wellspring conclude in the tame runne ...

‘socialist conservatism’.^20 It was in such a vein that Martineau had, long before, sourly observed that Australian rum drinkers ...