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Author Jones, Roy

Title Twentieth Century Land Settlement Schemes
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (262 pages)
Series Routledge Research in Historical Geography Ser
Routledge Research in Historical Geography Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: the lives and legacies of twentieth century land settlement schemes; 2. Conceptualizing the frontier; 3. Policy mobilities and land settlement schemes: the emergence of homesteading in Western Australia; 4. Jewish farm settlements and the Jewish Colonization Association in Western Canada; 5. Soldier settlement and the expansion and contraction of the bush frontier in New Zealand during the 1920s
6. Western Australia's interwar group settlement scheme, a case study of the Leeds Group, 1923-19387. The Hudson's Bay Company's sponsored agricultural settlement at Vermilion, Alberta, Canada; 8. Fordland and Belterra yesterday and today: lessons from failed projects of the Amazon; 9. Physical and social engineering in the Dutch polders: the case of the Noordoostpolder; 10. The elusive dream of "development" on the agricultural land settlement schemes in Papua New Guinea; 11. The complexities of the Brazilian Amazon frontier and its most recent chapter: soybean expansion in Roraima
12. Conclusion: relatively recent rural settlement schemes -- representations, realities and resultsIndex
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Subject Land settlement -- History -- 20th century
Land tenure -- History -- 20th century
Land settlement
Land tenure
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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