Titlebook: Imperial Theory and Colonial Pragmatism; Charles Harper, Econ David J. Gilchrist Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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,A Step Too Far: Western Australian State Socialism (1912–1930),espect save in the arena of politics, which he avoided following his experience chairing the 1924/1925 Royal Commission into the Group Settlement Scheme (Smith 1983). The trajectory of Walter Harper’s career and the contribution he made—both in terms of style and outcome—may therefore be interpreted

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Book 2017omic organisation, the development of public capital, and socialism. It uses this discussion to demonstrate the transfer of socialistic ideas from the centre of the Empire to the farthest reaches of the Antipodes where they were used to provide a rhetorical crutch in support of purely pragmatic co-o

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2662-6578 and agricultural history.Highlights Harper’s significance i.This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia, helped build public capital, drive economic development and impact political arrangements. In the case of colonial Western Au

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The Long Stagnation, and a powerbroker. The central argument advanced in this volume is that Harper established co-operatives in Western Australia, prior to the Great War, as a means to overcome the economic problems faced by frontier settlements that suffered from the tyranny of distance and inadequate capital and inf

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Imperial Demands, Local Imperatives,tic dictates of survival and economic development. Examining the colonisation of the United States, Frederick Jackson Turner (1893, 1921) argued that settlers in frontier environments dispense with their inherited ideologies once they are confronted with the pressures of frontier living, and that Am

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Bending Co-operation to the Western Australian Economic Problem,in Chap. . to indirectly shape the development of agricultural co-operation in Western Australia. The arguments and counter-arguments associated with co-operation were well known in the Antipodes by the 1890s. In fact, the concept of working in concert to earn an appropriate return for all resonated