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History. --- Geography. --- Language. --- Language --- Culture. --- Social organisation. --- Victoria, to date. Serials. --- Vocabulary --- Place names. --- Victoria --- Victoria (Vic.) --- Victoria. --- History

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Natural history --- Animals. --- Plants. --- Environment --- Sites. --- Technology. --- Art --- Natural history. --- Natuurlijke historie. --- Biodiversity. --- Rock art. --- Rock art --- Painting. --- Victoria (Vic.) --- Australia. --- Australian --- Periodical --- Natural History

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It is a common perception that the influence of the Aborigines on British settlement in Australia was minimal. The economic significance of Aboriginal culture for the colonisers is rarely addressed and until now, has not been closely studied by an economic historian. This imaginative book presents a concept of a pre-European Aboriginal economy. It shows how an Aboriginal presence over millennia shaped the local environment and responded to it, so that the Aboriginal economy developed into an ordered system of decision-making able to satisfy the wants of the people. The book closely analyses the processes which allowed economic control of a country to pass from Aboriginal to European hands within 60 years of settlement. Professor Butlin's presentation of the contrast between one of the world's most ancient economies and one of its youngest is both illuminating and exciting.

Aboriginal Australians --- Economic history. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Economic conditions. --- History. --- Government relations. --- Australia --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Environment - Climate and weather - Seasons. --- Colonisation. --- Demography - Birth rate. --- Demography - Population dynamics. --- Health - Infectious diseases - Smallpox. --- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians. --- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900. --- Social behaviour - Roles. --- Trade and exchange. --- New South Wales(NSW). --- Victoria (Vic). --- Tasmania (Tas).