W. K. Hancock

Discovering Monaro

A Study of Man's Impact on His Environment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discovering Monaro, a fascinating local history of an Australian region, is at the same time a contribution to the current debate on the environment and man's manipulation of it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780521104937
• ISBN-10: 0521104939
• Artikelnr.: 25856773

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Perspective View: 1. Theme
2. The first discoverers
Part II. New Arrivals: 3. Squatting
4. Spoiling
5. Improving
Part III. Possessing the land: 6. Battles for possession
7. Spoiling
8. Improving
9. White men in the high country - the first hundred years
Part IV. The two landscapes: 10. The tableland
11. The high country
12. Looking forward.