Australia’s Western Third: A History of Western Australia from the first settlements to modern times

WEST AUSTRALIANA

This classic text explores the history of Western Australia from the time of the earliest European settlers to early post-Second World War.

History of Western Australian from the time of the earliest white settlers until today. Reconstructs each stage in the State’s development. English colonial history. Describing the country as the first settlers found it, and their early struggles for survival, and it traces the political, social and economic growth of the State. Early gold mining days and the development of the farming lands.

First Edition. (No dustjacket).

• 404 p : illus ; 22 cm.
• Bibliography: p.373-379.
• History – Economic
• Mining industry
• Settlement and contacts – Colonisation
• Economic sectors – Agriculture and horticulture
• Western Australia — History
• Western Australia (WA)
• #300124 Quite scarce and collectable.