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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... centuries , contemporary geographical knowledge of Australia was essentially a rich amalgam of fact , fiction and rampant guesswork . For the remainder of the nineteenth century too it has been shown that , in its conceptual and ...
... centuries , contemporary geographical knowledge of Australia was essentially a rich amalgam of fact , fiction and rampant guesswork . For the remainder of the nineteenth century too it has been shown that , in its conceptual and ...
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... century changes , not only to explore the palpable antecedents of current geographical arrangements but also to examine matters of significant public interest in development or resource management strategies , environmental hazards ...
... century changes , not only to explore the palpable antecedents of current geographical arrangements but also to examine matters of significant public interest in development or resource management strategies , environmental hazards ...
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... century experiences where so much of the story involves re - orientations within existing settlement zones ; yet some of the idées fixes of frontiering were still highly influential in Australia during the inter - war period , and ...
... century experiences where so much of the story involves re - orientations within existing settlement zones ; yet some of the idées fixes of frontiering were still highly influential in Australia during the inter - war period , and ...
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... century of white occupation Australians continued to experience many difficulties in ' coming to terms ' - with one another , with changing relationships in the wider world , and with a challenging matrix of con- straints and rewards ...
... century of white occupation Australians continued to experience many difficulties in ' coming to terms ' - with one another , with changing relationships in the wider world , and with a challenging matrix of con- straints and rewards ...
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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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