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AbstractRugby league flourished in the Aboriginal settlements run by the Queensland government in the 1920s and 1930s, as officials relaxed policies of segregation and isolation to allow Aboriginal teams to travel within the state. Revenue from the games, at times significant sums, went to government trust accounts and not directly to the settlements. Available data on this sporting income and government spending policies reveals an exploitative system, ethically comparable to Stolen Wages and reflecting the dispossession of Aboriginal Queenslanders in this era. While sport bolstered community pride, these exploitative dimensions qualify its contribution to Aboriginal wellbeing.

Urban growth is a major theme in economic development and a policy imperative for developed countries that seek to create sustainable cities. We argue that the past weighs heavily on the ability of societies to sustainably manage urban environments. The policy implications of urban history are revealed in comparisons of cities across times and between places. The special issue presents some of the best recent work on the economic and social history of Australian cities. We aim to encourage historians to incorporate urban variables into studies of historical processes and to persuade policymakers to consider historical trends in their analysis.

Altogether, as a place of education Adelaide falls far short of the mark; as a place of amusement it is hopeless; and as a village — well, it is tolerably clean, and comparatively healthy.Thistle Anderson (1905)

In the century preceding World War I, the world experienced a series of gold rushes. The wealth derived from these was distributed widely because of reduced migration costs and low barriers to entry. While gold mining itself was generally unprofitable for diggers and mine owners, the increase in the world's gold supply stimulated global trade and investment. In this introductory article we integrate the histories of migration, trade, colonisation, and environmental history to identify endogenous factors that increased the world's gold supply and generated sustained economic growth in the regions that were affected by gold rushes.

Starting with the 16th century trade of Latin American silver and Chinese silk, leading researchers trace the economic, environmental and social history of the Pacific region. Chapters examine the trade of diverse commodities within the Pacific and analyse the ecological and social impacts of this increasing economic activity. The strong Chinese marketplace emerges as crucial to early Pacific development, and is compared with Japan's central role in the region's modern economy

Over a 50 year period, Australian Rules football's major league, the Victorian Football League, did not always use its largest and best‐equipped stadium for regular season games between its most popular teams or schedule those teams to play twice in a regular season. We calculate deadweight losses from the use of capital goods (stadiums) and effects of match scheduling in this professional sports league. Such analysis has not been attempted previously because of the absence of a counterfactual. The welfare losses were significant but not sufficient to threaten the survival of a distance‐protected cartel.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Traditionalism and Colonialism: Changing Urban Roles in Asia -- 2 Macao as a Religious and Commercial Entrepôt in the 16th and 17th Centuries -- 3 Batavia, 1619-1740: The Rise and Fall of a Chinese Colonial Town -- 4 The Development of Pacific Coast Ports During the Spanish Colonial Period in Mexico -- 5 The Development of Philippine Cities Before 1900 -- 6 Some Reflections on Urbanization and the Historical Development of Market Towns in the Lower Yangtze Region, ca. 1500-1900 -- 7 Urban Sanitation in Preindustrial Japan -- 8 Coping in Their Own Way: Asian Cities and the Problem of Fires -- 9 A Historical Review of Housing Conditions in Hong Kong -- 10 Public Health Care in Valparaíso, Chile -- 11 Honolulu in the 19th Century: Notes on the Emergence of Urban Society in Hawaii -- 12 Australian Capital Cities in the Nineteenth Century -- 13 The Making of Urban New Zealand -- 14 Seattle, Vancouver, and the Klondike -- 15 City Commercial, City Beautiful, City Practical: The San Francisco Visions of William C. Ralston, James D. Phelan, and Michael M. O'Shaughnessy -- Index