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... practical syntheses which colleagues in various branches of geography , and fellow - travellers in other subject areas , do not usually expect from such ' purist ' endeavours . Admittedly , that judgement mainly reflects a personal ...
... practical syntheses which colleagues in various branches of geography , and fellow - travellers in other subject areas , do not usually expect from such ' purist ' endeavours . Admittedly , that judgement mainly reflects a personal ...
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... practical geographers . Their bold signatures across the land proclaim an intrusive human agency in the modification of enormous tracts which , taken together , easily exceed the entire land area of Western Europe . And the tradition ...
... practical geographers . Their bold signatures across the land proclaim an intrusive human agency in the modification of enormous tracts which , taken together , easily exceed the entire land area of Western Europe . And the tradition ...
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... practical experience in intricate , long - established scholarly systems . Australian history , another late starter , was rapidly gaining respectability in the 1960s . At that time there was still a great scarcity of reliable secondary ...
... practical experience in intricate , long - established scholarly systems . Australian history , another late starter , was rapidly gaining respectability in the 1960s . At that time there was still a great scarcity of reliable secondary ...
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... practical service , to that whining old complaint which has recently reappeared in modern disguise : ' In all probability the advancement of science in a new country is better obtained by constructing good roads and excellent railways ...
... practical service , to that whining old complaint which has recently reappeared in modern disguise : ' In all probability the advancement of science in a new country is better obtained by constructing good roads and excellent railways ...
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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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