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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... responses 288 ' Stop - and - go ' frontiers 302 Restructuring and the ' yeoman ' : the modern dairying industry 307 Scrub - country renovations 312 Walking on water : challenges to irrigation 322 10 Conclusion : arrivals and departures ...
... responses 288 ' Stop - and - go ' frontiers 302 Restructuring and the ' yeoman ' : the modern dairying industry 307 Scrub - country renovations 312 Walking on water : challenges to irrigation 322 10 Conclusion : arrivals and departures ...
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... Third ' 132 25 Griffith 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.
... Third ' 132 25 Griffith 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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The Restive Fringe Joseph Michael Powell. 28 Taylor's response to Stefansson ( 1 ) 144 29 Taylor's response to Stefansson ( 2 ) 145 30 Griffith Taylor's preferred sequence of settlement 147 31 An important natural history journal in the ...
The Restive Fringe Joseph Michael Powell. 28 Taylor's response to Stefansson ( 1 ) 144 29 Taylor's response to Stefansson ( 2 ) 145 30 Griffith Taylor's preferred sequence of settlement 147 31 An important natural history journal in the ...
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... responses to the changing milieux , professional and otherwise , in which Australian geographers now operate . An axiom of white Australian history declares that it is not profitable to attempt to separate the winning of geographical ...
... responses to the changing milieux , professional and otherwise , in which Australian geographers now operate . An axiom of white Australian history declares that it is not profitable to attempt to separate the winning of geographical ...
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... response , with intellectual and 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 ...
... response , with intellectual and 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 ...
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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