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Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia: Revisiting the Empty North

Autor Russell McGregor
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 iun 2016
This new study offers a timely and compelling account of why past generations of Australians have seen the north of the country as an empty land, and how those perceptions of Australia’s tropical regions impact current policy and shape the self-image of the nation. It considers the origins of these concerns - from fears of invasion and moral qualms about leaving resources lying idle, from apprehensions about white nationhood coming under international censure and misgivings about the natural attributes of the north - and elucidates Australians’ changing appreciations of the natural environments of the north, their shifting attitudes toward race and their unsettled conceptions of Asia.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349905737
ISBN-10: 1349905739
Pagini: 247
Ilustrații: XIX, 256 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Preface.- Chapter 1: Anxieties Aroused.- Chapter 2: Whiteness versus the Tropics.- Chapter 3: Acquiring a White Elephant.- Chapter 4: A Dog in the Manger.- Chapter 5: Colouring the Empty Spaces.- Chapter 6: Redeeming the Desolation.- Chapter 7: Downgrading the North.- Chapter 8: Vulnerabilities Laid Bare.- Chapter 9: Modest Projections, Massive Projects.- Chapter 10: The Divisive North.- Chapter 11: Whither the White North?.- Chapter 12: Emptiness Attenuated.- Epilogue, or Are We There Yet?.

Recenzii

“The book is, in many ways, a twentieth-century history of high modernity and failed development in a specific environmental and geographic context. … This will be the go-to book that documents that long history.” (Alison Bashford, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 48 (2), May, 2017)

Notă biografică

Russell McGregor is currently Adjunct Professor of History at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. His publications include the award-winning books Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory and Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation.

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This new study offers a timely and compelling account of why past generations of Australians have seen the north of the country as an empty land, and how those perceptions of Australia’s tropical regions impact current policy and shape the self-image of the nation. It considers the origins of these concerns - from fears of invasion and moral qualms about leaving resources lying idle, from apprehensions about white nationhood coming under international censure and misgivings about the natural attributes of the north - and elucidates Australians’ changing appreciations of the natural environments of the north, their shifting attitudes toward race and their unsettled conceptions of Asia.