xxiv, 278 #1215R/1219 (Prev ownership and bookshop label on prelim.) First published in 1972. Reissue with a new introduction of an account of the Depression years of 1929-1933 in Western Australia and the link with secessionism. With a bibliography, index, and sepia illustrations. The author was professor of history at Edith Cowan University in Perth and general editor of the ‘Oxford History of Australia’.