An Historical Geography of Modern Australia: The Restive FringeThis is a substantial study immediately established itself as essential reading for all those with a serious interest in Australian studies. |
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... schemes 100 Victoria : a case study 111 Yeomen and bureaucrats 116 5 Science and the frontier Research directions : enterprise versus metropolitanisation 121 121 Griffith Taylor and the ' ecumene ' 129 Environmentalism versus V.
... schemes 100 Victoria : a case study 111 Yeomen and bureaucrats 116 5 Science and the frontier Research directions : enterprise versus metropolitanisation 121 121 Griffith Taylor and the ' ecumene ' 129 Environmentalism versus V.
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The Restive Fringe Joseph Michael Powell. Griffith Taylor and the ' ecumene ' 129 Environmentalism versus possibilism 137 6 Conservation and planning in the ' last of lands ' 150 Save Australia 152 Town and regional planning 169 ' New ...
The Restive Fringe Joseph Michael Powell. Griffith Taylor and the ' ecumene ' 129 Environmentalism versus possibilism 137 6 Conservation and planning in the ' last of lands ' 150 Save Australia 152 Town and regional planning 169 ' New ...
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... Taylor as interfering marriage - broker 134 26 Burdens of an insular nationalism 27 Griffith Taylor's ' debunking ' efforts 135 138 28 Taylor's response to Stefansson ( 1 ) 144 29 vii List of Illustrations.
... Taylor as interfering marriage - broker 134 26 Burdens of an insular nationalism 27 Griffith Taylor's ' debunking ' efforts 135 138 28 Taylor's response to Stefansson ( 1 ) 144 29 vii List of Illustrations.
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... Taylor's response to Stefansson ( 2 ) 145 30 Griffith Taylor's preferred sequence of settlement 147 31 An important natural history journal in the early years of fed- eration 153 32 Soil erosion in South Australia in the late 1930s 157 ...
... Taylor's response to Stefansson ( 2 ) 145 30 Griffith Taylor's preferred sequence of settlement 147 31 An important natural history journal in the early years of fed- eration 153 32 Soil erosion in South Australia in the late 1930s 157 ...
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Contents
Prodigal children an introduction | 3 |
Centennial | 7 |
Fringe bush outback | 9 |
Imperialism federationism resource management | 14 |
State and nation | 19 |
Domesticating the fringe | 30 |
State socialism in the bush | 41 |
Outback interrogations | 55 |
Perspective | 189 |
Nationalism and dependency 195086 | 195 |
A changing society | 205 |
The peopling of Australia | 206 |
The modern pattern | 212 |
The social issues irritant | 217 |
Environmentalism | 231 |
The Janus face of Australian industry | 250 |
Building the temple 191450 | 67 |
Imperialism Protectionism democratic nationalism | 72 |
Government managerialism in Australia | 81 |
Debt of honour Soldier Settlement 191529 | 90 |
An imperial yeomanry | 91 |
the Australian schemes | 100 |
a case study | 111 |
Yeomen and bureaucrats | 116 |
Science and the frontier | 121 |
Griffith Taylor and the ecumene | 129 |
Environmentalism versus possibilism | 137 |
Conservation and planning in the last of lands | 150 |
Save Australia | 152 |
Town and regional planning | 169 |
New states and the regional concept | 179 |
Basic patterns | 251 |
Structural change and global reorganisation | 254 |
Industry and environmentalism | 268 |
Aboriginal lands in an industrialised society | 281 |
Agriculture and the modern federation | 286 |
Government and nongovernment responses | 288 |
Stopandgo frontiers | 302 |
the modern dairying industry | 307 |
Scrubcountry renovations | 312 |
challenges to irrigation | 322 |
Conclusion arrivals and departures | 334 |
Notes | 342 |
Select Bibliography | 377 |
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Aboriginal Adelaide administrative agricultural American areas Austra Australian Geographer Brigalow Britain British Canberra capital cent centres century Closer Settlement colonial Commission Commonwealth Conservation contemporary dairy debate districts early economic empire environment environmental example export farmers farming favoured federal Figure forest Forestry geography of Australia Goyder's Line Griffith Taylor groups growth Ibid immigrants imperial improved increased industry inter-war interest investment irrigation J. M. Powell Labor land settlement landscape Little Desert major manufacturing markets Melbourne ment million acres modern Northern Territory offered official Ord River organisations overseas pastoral pioneer planning political politicians population post-war production programmes Queensland regional Report rural schemes sector significant social society soil Soldier Settlement Soldier Settlers South Australia South Wales spatial Sydney Tasmania Taylor town trade urban Victoria Western Australia wheat White Australia Policy Zealand