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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... recent progress in Britain and Germany . Edited by DIETRICH DENECKE and GARETH SHAW 11 An historical geography of modern Australia : the restive fringe . J. M. POWELL AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF MODERN AUSTRALIA The restive fringe J.
... recent progress in Britain and Germany . Edited by DIETRICH DENECKE and GARETH SHAW 11 An historical geography of modern Australia : the restive fringe . J. M. POWELL AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF MODERN AUSTRALIA The restive fringe J.
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... recent settler arrivals 210 21 Major birthplace regions of the overseas - born , 1971–81 210 22 Changing distribution of post - war population 214 23 Proportional changes in ' rural ' populations , 1947–71 214 24 Distribution of post ...
... recent settler arrivals 210 21 Major birthplace regions of the overseas - born , 1971–81 210 22 Changing distribution of post - war population 214 23 Proportional changes in ' rural ' populations , 1947–71 214 24 Distribution of post ...
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... recent elaborations . Banks , Hooker , Darwin , Huxley , Cook himself : the star of science illuminated early European interpretations . From the great South Pacific voyages to the heroic era of land exploration and the singularly ...
... recent elaborations . Banks , Hooker , Darwin , Huxley , Cook himself : the star of science illuminated early European interpretations . From the great South Pacific voyages to the heroic era of land exploration and the singularly ...
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... 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 than by setting up telescopes and gazing at the stars'.4 It ...
... 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 than by setting up telescopes and gazing at the stars'.4 It ...
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... recent popular history has probably exhausted our palates while passing up too many opportunities for useful political , spatial and economic analyses.1 Rodents and Railways need not make for mundane history , but a third R- the present ...
... recent popular history has probably exhausted our palates while passing up too many opportunities for useful political , spatial and economic analyses.1 Rodents and Railways need not make for mundane history , but a third R- the present ...
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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