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1 online resource (262 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Historical Geography Ser |
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Routledge Research in Historical Geography Ser
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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 |
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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 |
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12. Conclusion: relatively recent rural settlement schemes -- representations, realities and resultsIndex |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Land settlement -- History -- 20th century
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Land tenure -- History -- 20th century
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Land settlement
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Land tenure
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Diniz, Alexandre M. A
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ISBN |
9781351684323 |
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1351684329 |
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9781351684316 |
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1351684310 |
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9781351684309 |
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1351684302 |
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9781315167886 |
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1315167883 |
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