Author: BROEZE, FRANK.
Title: Mr Brooks and the Australian Trade. Imperial Business in the Nineteenth Century.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xii, 375; 11 b/w illustrations, 1 b/w map, a number of text tables, notes to each chapter, select bibliography, index; original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, a fine copy. Carlton; Melbourne University Press; 1993. A successful businessman by any yardstick, Brooks was one of the leaders of trade between Britain and Australia from the 1820s to the 1870s. He was active in all its sectors - shipping, commerce, finance, banking, investment, migration. Brooks was the most influential and longest serving founding director of the Union Bank of Australia and one of the largest importers of wool in London. He managed his manifold business interests from a City counting-house with a handful of clerks, having only once ventured to Australia.

Keywords: Australian Trade business history 19th century biography australian