In a necessarily selective way, this paper explores the historiographical evolution of ‘settler colonialism’ as a category of analysis during the second half of the twentieth century. It identifies three main passages in its development. At first (until the 1960s), ‘settlers’, ‘settlement’ and ‘colonisation’ are understood as entirely unrelated to colonialism. The two do not occupy the same analytical field, pioneering endeavours are located in ‘empty’ settings and the presence and persistence of indigenous ‘Others’ is comprehensively disavowed. In a second stage (until the late 1970s), ‘settler colonialism’ as a compound identifies one specific type of diehard colonialism, an ongoing and uncompromising form of hyper-colonialism characterised by enhanced aggressiveness and exploitation (a form that had by then been challenged by a number of anti-colonial insurgencies). During a third phase (from the late 1970s and throughout the first half of the 1980s), settler colonialism is identified by a capacity to ...

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Australia and the Hartz Fragment’ Thesis*

‘Settler Colonialism’: Career of a Concept

Introduction: Toward a Unified Approach to the Economic History of Settler Economies, Richard Sutch 1. Settler Colonization and Societies in World History: Patterns and Concepts, Christopher Lloyd and Jacob Metzer PART A - GENERAL PERSPECTIVES 2. Why the Settlers Soared: The Dynamics of Immigration and Economic Growth in the 'Golden Age' for settler Societies, Susan Carter and Richard Sutch 3. Five Hundred Years of European Colonization: Inequality and Paths of Development, Stanley Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff 4. Uneven Development Paths Among Settler Societies, 1870-2000, Henry Willebald and Luis Bertola 5. Settler Colonialism in Africa, Claude Lutzelschwab 6. Jews in Mandatory Palestine and Additional Phenomena of Atypical Settler Colonization in Modern Time, Jacob Metzer PART B - COMPARATIVE THEMES Settler-Indigenous Relations 7. Dispossession by the Market on the Frontier of Property Systems: Case Studies of the Maori Land Court, Indian Reservation Allotment, and Metis Scrip, Frank Tough and Kathleen Dimmer 8. The Aboriginal Economy in Settler Societies: Maori and Canadian Prairie Indians, Tony Ward Labor and Migration 9. Patterns and Processes of Migration, Drew Keeling 10. Three Island Frontiers: Japanese Migration in the Pacific, Carl Mosk 11. Coerced Labour in Southern Hemisphere Settler Economies, David Meredith 12. Labor Market Outcomes in settler Economies Between 1870 and 1913: Accounting for Differences in Labor Hours and Occupations, Martin Shanahan and John K Wilson Finance and Capital Flows 13. Wakefieldian Investment and the Birth of New Societies, c 1830-1930, Bernard Attard 14. Financial Intermediaries in Settler Economies, Grietjie Verhoef Trade and Investment 15. International Trade and Investment of the Settler Economies during the Twentieth Century: Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, Tim Rooth 16. Trade, Dominance, Dependence and the end of the Settlement Era in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, 1920-1973, Francine McKenzie Institutional Development 17. So Similar, So Different: New Zealand and Uruguay in the World Economy, Jorge Alvarez and Luis Bertola 18. The State and Economic Development in 20th Century Australia and New Zealand, Jim McAloon 19. Institutional Patterns of the Settler Societies: Hybrid, Parallel, and Convergent, Christopher Lloyd Index

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Settler Economies in World History

Introduction Simon Ville and Glenn Withers Part I. Framework: 1. The historiography of Australian economic history William Coleman 2. Economic growth and its drivers since European settlement Jakob Madsen 3. Analytical frameworks of economic history Chris Lloyd Part II. Transition: 4. The Aboriginal legacy Boyd Hunter 5. The convict economy Debbie Oxley and David Meredith Part III. Economic Expansion of the Colonies: 6. Technological change Gary Magee 7. Industrialising Australia's natural capital David Greasley 8. Labour, skills and migration Andrew Seltzer 9. Colonial enterprise Simon Ville 10. Infrastructure and colonial socialism Jonathan Pincus and Henry Ergas 11. Urbanisation Lionel Frost Part IV. A National Economy: 12. Capital markets Rodney Maddock 13. Manufacturing Diane Hutchinson 14. Big business and foreign firms David Merrett 15. Government and the evolution of public policy John Wilson 16. The labour market Tim Hatton and Glenn Withers 17. The service economy Monica Keneley Part V. Building the Modern Economy: 18. Reorientation of trade, investment, migration Richard Pomfret 19. Microeconomic reform Jeff Borland 20. The evolution of macroeconomic strategy Mike Keating Part VI. Looking Backwards and to the Future: 21. A statistical narrative: Australia 1800-2010 Matthew Butlin, Robert Dixon and Peter Lloyd 22. Wealth and welfare Martin Shanahan 23. Property right regimes and their environmental impacts Edwyna Harris 24. Refiguring indigenous economies: a 21st century perspective John Altman and Nicholas Biddle Appendix Matthew Butlin, Robert Dixon and Peter Lloyd.

The Cambridge economic history of Australia

Infrastructure and colonial socialism

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Australia and the Hartz Fragment’ Thesis*

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‘Settler Colonialism’: Career of a Concept

Settler Economies in World History

The Cambridge economic history of Australia

Infrastructure and colonial socialism

Old age in a young colony: image and experience in South Australia in the nineteenth century.

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