Pastoral Australia : fortunes, failures and hard yakka : a historical overview 1788-1967 / Michael Pearson and Jane Lennon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearson, Michael, 1951-

Contributor:

Lennon, Jane.

Australia. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage, and the Arts.

Australian Heritage Council.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pastoral systems--Australia--History.

Pastoral systems.

Sheep industry--Australia--History.

Sheep industry.

Wool industry--Australia--History.

Wool industry.

Cattle trade--Australia--History.

Cattle trade.

Agriculture--Australia--History.

Agriculture.

Australia--History.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing in association with the Dept. of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts and the Australian Heritage Council, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry,how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settlersociety.

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; Maps:; Boxes:; Foreword; Authors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Measurements; List of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Contractions; Introduction; Chapter 1. Genesis 1788-1830; Chapter 2. Boom, Bust and Gold 1830-1860; Chapter 3. After the Gold Rush: An Evolving Industry 1860-1890; Chapter 4. Consolidation and Expansion 1860-1890; Chapter 5. Depression and Drought 1890-1915; Chapter 6. Maturity and the Golden Years 1915-1967; Centrefold: Time line of Australia's Pastoral Industry

Chapter 7. Afterglow: Pastoralism into the Twenty-firstCentury and the Heritage of Earlier CenturiesEndnotes; Bibliography; List of pastoral stations mentioned in the text; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-197) and index.

ISBN:

9786613156372

9780643102132

0643102132

9781283156370

1283156377

9780643100503

0643100504

OCLC:

645097464