This subject must be taken before or at the same time as Economics Part
I.
A course of two lectures per week, with tutorial classes, throughout the Year.
SYLLABUS. Relations between man and his geographical environment ; f actors affecting land utiliгаtion, population, settlement, industry and trade. Natural resources : climate and climatic regions, physiography, soils, and minerals, as basic factors in production. Resource utilization : major industries of the world;
organisation of industry and commerce ; transport and communication ; Australian primary and secondary industries. Australian overseas trade ; leading commodities in international trade. Trade policies ; trends in world trade, with special reference to Australia and Great Britain.
вQoкs. (a) Prescribed text-books :
*Zimtnernlann_– 4/оrld Resources and I°nducstries, selected chapters. (Farper. )
*Finch and Trewartha---The Elements of Geography. (McGraw-Hill.)
*Wadhaгn and Wood—Land Utilisation in Australia, selected chapters. (Mdb.
UP.)
*Commnonzweal th Year Book, selected sections. (Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.)
*Atlas--Bartholomew—Тhe Comparative Atlas. ( Meiklej ohn. ) (b) Recommended for reference:
Wood (Ed.)—Australia, Its Resources and Development. (Macmillan.) D. H. Davis—The Earth and Man. (Macmillan.)
Jones and Darkenwald--Еcoпoтic Geography. (Macmillan.)
LECTURE SYLLAвus. An extended Syllabus of the course is available for issue to students. This shows the course in detail and contains references for further reading, both general and an special topics. A charge of 10/- for these notes is made and is payable with the lecture fees of the first term.
EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY PART II
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the Year.
SvLLAвvs. Relations between peoples and geographical environments in the Pacific area (including India and S.E. Asia) ; natural resource patterns as indi- cated by climate, topography, soils, water supply, minerals, etc. The chief ethnic groups of the Pacific and their dispersion throughout the area. Major factors affecting land utilization, settlement, industry and trade ; causes and effects of differences in consumption standards, production methods, population density and capital investment.
Geographic causes of economic and political conflicts ; industrial power as a f actor in economic conditions and international relations. Primary and secondary Industries of major Pacific countries, with more detailed study of the economic
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interests of the United States, Great Britain, U. S. S.R., Australia and New Zealand in South--East Asia and the South-West Pacific.
Resource management ; limitations and possibilities for expansion of population and for the development of manufactures and overseas trade. Trade, investment and industrial conditions arising from the economic structure of these countries.
Вoокs. (a) Prescribed text-books:
*Cressey---Asia's Lands and Peoples. (Whittlesey House.)
McCаrthу---Тhe Geographic Bases of American Economic Life. (Harper.)
*Wood and McBride-The Pacifiс Basia. (0.U.P.)
International Labour Organization-E соn omi c Background of Social Policy.
(I.L.O.)
Вroek----T1гс Economic Develоpmneпt of tIre Netherlands East Indies. (I.P.R.)
* FAtlas of Geography---Cumberland (for New Zealand only) . (Whitcombe and Tombs.)
(b) Recommended for reference:
Wickizer and Вennett---Tke Rice Econoiizy of Monsooit Asia. (Stanford.) Cressey----China's Geographic Poundations. (McGraw-Hill.)
Preston James-Latin America. ( Cassell.)
Кeesing-тlzе South Seas in the Modern World. (John Day.) Mitchell-IndъΡistrialitiation of the Western Pacific. (I.P.R. ) Griffith Taylor-Canada. (Methuen.)
Whitbeck and Finch-Econoinic Geography : A Regional Sіcrvey. (г cGraw- Hill.)
Whitbeck and \Villiams-Ecоnomic Geography of Soutlг America. (McGraw- Hill.)
Trewartha-.Tapan. (McGraw-Hill.)
Smith and Phillips-North America. (Harcourt Brace, N.Y.) ExAIINATroN. Two 3-hour papers,
ECONOMIC HISTORY PART I
A course of two lectures per week, with tutorial classes, throughout the Year.
SYLLABUS. The general principles of the evolution of industry and trade.
Outline of the economic history of England to 1760. The industrial revolution and its consequences in England. Modern economic history of England, France, Germany and the United States. The economic history of Australia in some detail. Modern industrial tendencies.
Students are required to prepare class exercises and essays, as set by the Lecturer.
В nays. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Ashley-Economic Qrgапiwаtion of England. (Longmans.) Shaw-Тhe Economic Development of Australia. (Longmans.)
(b) Prescribed text-books :
Ashton—The Industrial Revolution. (H.U.L.)
*Shaun-An Economic History of Australia. (C.U.P.)
*Faulkner—Economпic History of the United States. (Macmillan.)
*Heaton-Economic History of Europe. (Harpers.)
* Fay--Great Britaii from Adam Smith to the Present Day. (Longmans.)
*Bland, Brown and Tawney—English Ecoizoinic eistory, Select Document.'.
(Bell.)
LECTURE SYLLAпUs. An extended outline of the course is available for issue to students. This shows the course in detail, and contains references for further reading, both general and on special topics. A charge of 10/- for these notes is made, and is payable with the lecture fees of the first term.
EXTERNAL STuDiES. Correspondence tuition is available in this subject; essays and exercises are marked and returned.
ExAIINATION. One 3-hour paper in November ; two examinations of 1 hour each in first and second terms.
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ECONOMIC HISTORY PART
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A course of two lectures per week throughout the year ; tutorial classes will also be arranged. Honours students will be expected to study certain selected topics, which will be indicated at the beginning of the year.
SvLLAвиs. The economic history of the Pacific area since about 1800, with particular reference to Australia. The course deals mainly with the history of
"Western" expansion into the Pacific, and its effect upon Japan, China and the countries of south-east Asia ; the history of the United States and Australia since about 1860, with reference to New Zealand. Attention will also be given to recent tendencies and the evolution of economic institutions.
Вoaкs. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading :
Schumpeter--Business Cycles.
Vols.
I and II. (McGraw-Hill.) Fisher—Clash of Progress and Security.(b) Prescribed text-books :
*Hancock—Survey of British Coinmonzvealth Affairs, Vol. II, Part I. (O.U.P.) Fitzpatrick—The British Empire in Australia. (Meir. U.P.)
*Forsyth----The Myth of Open Spaces. (Melb. U.P.) D.P.
*N.Z. Institute of International Affairs--Contemporary N.Z.
*Mitchell---I ndтrstrialiŃation of the Western Pacific. (I.P.R., 1942.)
*R. Hubbard—Easters, Industrialization and its Effect on the West. (O.U.P.)
*А1len---A Short Economic History of Modern Japan.
('P.R.)
*hacker and Kendrick—The United States since 1865. (Crofts.) (c) Documents:
Second Report Commonwealth Royal Commission on Wheat Industry, 1935.
Report of Commonwealth Wool Inquiry Committee, 1932.
Basic Wage Judgments of Commonwealth Arbitration Court, 1931-1941.
Report of N.S.V. Royal Commission on Coal Industry, 1930.
(d) Recommended for reference :
Bogart and Kemmerer—Economic History of the American People. (Long- mans.)
Norman—Iapan's Emergence as a Modern State. (I.P.R.)
Gull—British Economic Interests in the Far East. (Royal Inst. of Int. Affairs.) The Australian
Tari,
1929. (Melb. U.P.)Buck—Land Utilization in, China.
Copland—Australia in the World Crisis. ( C.U.P. )
Shahn and Copland—The Battle of the Ptans. (Angus and Robertson.) Shann and Copland—The Crisis in Australian Finance. (Angus and Robert-
son.)
Shepherd—Industry in South-Eastern Asia. (I.P.R.)
Brack—Eсonoiniс Development of ` Netherlands Indies. ( I.P.R.)
Economic Record Supplement : New Zealand Centennial Number, October, 1939.
Berle and Means---The Modern Corporation and Private Property. (Mac- millan.)
Schumpeter—Business Cycles, Parts I and II. (McGraw-Hill.)
Students may be required to consult statistical publications and articles in periodicals as directed by the lecturer.
ExAMINATroN. Two 3-hour papers.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE AA course of two lectures a week, with tutorial classes, throughout the year.
SУLLAВus. A course on democratic theory and practices, and on government and political forces in Britain and Australia. The course involves a study of the general principles of the British and Australian constitutions, and of the main Political institutions of the two countries.
Students are required to submit written work during the course.
Boікs. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Woolf—After the Deluge. (Pelican.)
Cair---Thе Resjonsible Citizen. (Thomas Nelson & Sons. ) 77
Barker----Britai and the British People. (Oxford.) Hancock—Australia. (Australian Pocket Library.) бΡ гattаn Iнtrodиcing Australia. (John Day.)
(b) Prescribed text-books : Hobhause----LiberЫlisr. (Oxford.)
Cole and Postgate—The Common People. (Methuen.)
Crisp—The Parliamentary Gouern"rent of the Commonwealth of Australia.
(Longmans. )
Woolf—After the Deluge. (Pelican.) Mill—On Liberty. (Everyman's. ) Jennings—Parliairment. (C.U.P.)
Jennings---The British Constitutio n. (C.U.Р.)
Laski—Parliamentary Govегnm тent i England. (Allen & Unwin.) Hogg—The Case. for Conservatism. (Penguin.)
Hall—Labour's First Year. (Penguin.) Parker--Labour Marches On. (Penguin.) Wheare—Federal Government. (Oxford.)
Report of the Royal Commission on the Conrstitirtion. (Govt. Printer, Can- berra.)
Greenwood----The Future of Australian Federal isen. (Melb. U.Р. ) Bawer—Аustralian Government To-day. (Meib. UP.)
Constitutions of the Labor, Liberal and Country Parties.
(c) Recommended for reference Tawney—Equality. (Allen & Unwin.) Lindsay
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Essentials of Demo cracy. (Oxford.) Allen—Democracy and the Individual. (Oxford.)Lennard—Democracy, the Threatened Foundations. (C.U.P.) Ritchie—Natural Rig- hts. (Allen & Unwin.)
Jennings—Cabinet Government. (C.U.P.)
Jennings--Law and the Constitution. (Macmillan.) Dicey—The Law of the Constitution. (Macmillan.) Gordon—Our Parliai;ient. (Hansard Society.)
A Group of Conservatives--Some Proposals for Constitutional Reform. (Eyre
& Spottiswoode.)
Greaves—The British Constitution. (Allen & Unwin.)
Portus---Stгtdies in the Australian Constitution. (Angus & Robertson.) Duncan—Trends in Australian Politics. (Angus & Robertson.) Denning—Inside Parliament. (Australasian Publishing Co.) Post-War Reconstruction. (Govt. Printer, Canberra.)
Constitutional Revision in Australia. (Australasian Publishing Co.) Childe--iow Labour Governs. (Labour Publishing Co.)
A full reading list and description of the course will be given to students.
EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.