Item 2 - The commercial origin of Australia

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AU TAS UTAS SPARC D6-2

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The commercial origin of Australia

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1 typescript document

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(1902-1988)

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Kenneth McKenzie (Ken) Dallas, historian, was born on 11 September 1902 at Detention River, west of Wynyard, Tasmania, son of Robert Dallas, a Tasmanian-born farmer, and his wife Margaret Jane, née Robinson, formerly a schoolteacher from Victoria. For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dallas-kenneth-mckenzie-ken-12394

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Copied from photograph lent by K M Dallas 31 May 19--

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Typescript (carbon copy) 347 pp.of Copy of K M Dallas "The commercial origin of Australia"
Includes 'the commercial importance of Cook's voyages', Australia a mercantilist plantation, American whaling, fur trade of N W America, Pacific trade, transportation, etc.

The collection also included pamphlets on economic, social conditions and New Fabian
Society pamphlets, etc. have been transferred to library for general cataloguing into the
library collection.

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This material is made available for personal research and study purposes under the University of Tasmania Standard Copyright Licence. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.Collections@utas.edu.au

When reusing this material, please provide the following acknowledgement:
“Courtesy of the UTAS Library Special & Rare Collections - D6”

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Original inventory and descriptive notes can be found at https://eprints.utas.edu.au/10902/2/Dallas.pdf

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December 2017 PP

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