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Mallee Country : land, people, history / Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor & Katie Holmes.
Penn Museum Library DU230.M33 B76 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Broome, Richard, 1948- author.
- Fahey, C. (Charles), author.
- Gaynor, Andrea, author.
- Holmes, Katie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural resources.
- Natural history.
- Land use.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Agriculture.
- Mallee (Vic.)--History.
- Mallee (Vic.).
- Murray Mallee (S. Aust.)--History.
- Murray Mallee (S. Aust.).
- Mallee Region (Vic.)--History.
- Mallee Region (Vic.).
- Western Australia--History.
- Western Australia.
- History.
- Australia.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--Mallee (Vic.).
- Land use--Australia--Mallee (Vic.).
- Natural history--Australia--Mallee (Vic.).
- Natural resources--Australia--Mallee (Vic.).
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Mallee (Vic.).
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Mallee lands--Australia.
- Mallee lands.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--South Australia--Murray Mallee.
- South Australia.
- Land use--Australia--South Australia--Murray Mallee.
- Natural history--Australia--South Australia--Murray Mallee.
- Natural resources--Australia--South Australia--Murray Mallee.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--Victoria--Mallee Region.
- Victoria.
- Land use--Australia--Victoria--Mallee Region.
- Natural history--Australia--Victoria--Mallee Region.
- Natural resources--Australia--Victoria--Mallee Region.
- Mallee lands--Western Australia.
- Agriculture--Australia--South Australia--Murray Mallee.
- Agriculture--Australia--Victoria--Mallee Region.
- Agriculture--Australia--Western Australia.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--Western Australia.
- Land use--Australia--Western Australia.
- Natural history--Australia--Western Australia.
- Natural resources--Australia--Western Australia.
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--South Australia--Murray Mallee.
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Victoria--Mallee Region.
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Western Australia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 415 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2020]
- Summary:
- Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government backed settlement schemes devastated lives and country, but some farmers learnt how to survive the droughts, dust storms, mice, locusts and salinity - as well as the vagaries of international markets - and became some of Australia's most resilient agriculturalists. In Mallee Country, innovation and tenacity have been neighbours to hardship and failure. Mallee Country is a story of how land and people shape each other. It is the story of how a landscape once derided by settlers as a 'howling wilderness' covered in 'dismal scrub' became home to citizens who delighted in mallee fauna and flora and fought to conserve it for future generations. And it is the story of the dreams, sweat and sorrows of people who face an uncertain future of depopulation and climate change with creativity and hope.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Mallee Aborigines and European Intruders to 1880 p. 1
- Chapter 1 Deep Time p. 3
- Chapter 2 Aboriginal Homelands p. 11
- Chapter 3 An Impracticable Country p. 46
- Chapter 4 Pastoral Adventurers p. 65
- Part 2 Transforming the Mallee 1880-1945 p. 101
- Chapter 5 A Land for Farmers p. 103
- Chapter 6 Developing Mallee Farms 1914-1925 p. 129
- Chapter 7 Troubled Times 1926-1945 p. 158
- Chapter 8 Camping and Working on Country p. 190
- Part 3 The State and Mallee Lands 1945-1983 p. 207
- Chapter 9 Modernising Mallee Farms p. 209
- Chapter 10 New Mallee Farms p. 242
- Chapter 11 Conserving the Mallee p. 271
- Part 4 Living with the Mallee 1983 to the Present p. 309
- Chapter 12 Sustaining Mallee Farms 1983-2018 p. 311
- Chapter 13 Reinventing the Mallee p. 346.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781925523126
- 1925523128
- OCLC:
- 1125272112
- Publisher Number:
- 99983747545
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