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Taming the Great South Land

A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia

By: William J Lines,William J. Lines

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Taming the Great South Land

A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia

By: William J Lines,William J. Lines

Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect. Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect.

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380

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Univ of California Press

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0520078306

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9780520078307

The London School of Economics (Works of William H. Beveridge)

And Its Problems 1919-1937

By: William H. Beveridge

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The London School of Economics (Works of William H. Beveridge)

And Its Problems 1919-1937

By: William H. Beveridge

The eighteen years when William Beveridge was Director of the LSE, saw some of the School’s greatest expansion. The years between the wars presented a number of problems discussed in this book, such as those of finding space in the heart of London, of the proper scope and method of economics, of academic self-government and of political activity by university readers of social sciences. The last chapter tells of the author’s forty years of friendship with Sidney and Beatrice Webb, using letters between him and them that had not been published before publication of this book in 1960.

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150

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Routledge

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1317572874

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9781317572879

Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950

Institutions, Ideas and Intellectual Experience

By: William C. Lubenow

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Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950

Institutions, Ideas and Intellectual Experience

By: William C. Lubenow

If objectivity was the great discovery of the nineteenth century, uncertainty was the great discovery of the twentieth century.

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291

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783275502

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9781783275502

The New Zealand Legislative Council

A Study of the Establishment, Failure and Abolition of an Upper House

By: William Keith Jackson

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The New Zealand Legislative Council

A Study of the Establishment, Failure and Abolition of an Upper House

By: William Keith Jackson

The New Zealand upper house, the Legislative Council (which bore a marked resemblance to its Canadian counterpart the Federal Senate) was abolished in 1950 in an action which represents one of the most clear-cut examples of pragmatic politics in New Zealand history. It was abolished by the essentially conservative National party (fundamentally committed to the bicameral principle), while the Labour party (formally committed to abolition) at first obstructed and then merely stood on the sidelines. New Zealand thus became the only democratic country in the world without either an upper house or a formal written constitution of any consequence. The author attempts both to explain this unusual development and to assess its consequences. The generally accepted view that the Legislative Council failed in 1892 is challenged, and the causes of the decline and failure are traced back to circumstances surrounding its original establishment in 1854. Subsequently, developments since 1950 are examined in the light of abolition. The author concludes that abolition represented the right policy undertaken for the wrong reasons and that ultimately it has made a greater contribution to constitutional change in the twenty years since 1950 than the chamber itself made in the last fifty years of its existence. The New Zealand Legislative Council, an analytical historical study of an institution, throws valuable light on the strengths and weaknesses of the bicameral principle and the consequences of abolishing a second chamber of Parliament. The book should prove useful to Political Science and History courses dealing with Commonwealth Parliamentary government, comparative institutions and constitutional law. It should also appeal to all those interested in the question of bicameral representation.

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254

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University of Toronto Press

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1487590490

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9781487590499

Histories, Power and Loss

Uses of the Past--a New Zealand Commentary

By: William Hosking Oliver

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Histories, Power and Loss

Uses of the Past--a New Zealand Commentary

By: William Hosking Oliver

This work is about what people do when they produce histories about the past, and what some New Zealanders have done when they have recounted parts of their country's past. The contributors write of legal claims and constitutional doubt, and document some of the claims process and its consequences.

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265

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Bridget Williams Books

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1877242209

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9781877242205

Looking for the Phoenix

A Memoir

By: William Hosking Oliver

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Looking for the Phoenix

A Memoir

By: William Hosking Oliver

W. H. Oliver, a writer, editor, professor, and central figure in New Zealand's intellectual landscape, reflects here on the decades of his own life and the history that has shaped him. A warm portrait is painted of his Cornish parents, whose experiences with immigration, rural work, the depression, and Labour activism are recounted. Oliver shares how he avidly absorbed education and progressed from rural schools to Oxford University. This wide-ranging account tells of ancestry and early childhood, the influences of feminism, friendship, marriage, and family, while acknowledging the broader scope of history and the development of New Zealand. This is a poet writing about history, and an historian writing an autobiography--perceptive, wry, and sometimes painfully honest.

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189

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Bridget Williams Books

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1877242985

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9781877242984

State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand

By: William Pember Reeves

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State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand

By: William Pember Reeves

Published in 1902, Reeves' scholarly account surveys the experimental legislation in Australia and New Zealand during this period.

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421

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Cambridge University Press

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1108030599

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9781108030595

History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Africa (1857-2009): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook

By: William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Africa (1857-2009): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook

By: William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi

This book won the prestigious Oberly Award for the best bibliography in the agricultural or natural sciences in 2009 It contains 2,336 references. Begins with a chronology of soy in Africa from 1857 to 2009. This is a book about the history of soybeans and soyfoods in Africa, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoro Islands, Comoros, Congo Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of (DRC), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Cote d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Niger, Reunion, Rhodesia, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Contains a full-page color map of soy in Africa, plus 25 historical illustrations and photos, many color.

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Soyinfo Center

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192891425X

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9781928914259

Book's by William Pember Reeves

Taming the Great South Land

Taming the Great South Land

The London School of Economics (Works of William H. Beveridge)

The London School of Economics (Works of William H. Beveridge)

Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950

Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950

The New Zealand Legislative Council

The New Zealand Legislative Council

Histories, Power and Loss

Histories, Power and Loss

Looking for the Phoenix

Looking for the Phoenix

State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand

State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand

History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Africa (1857-2009): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook

History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Africa (1857-2009): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook

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