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1 online resource |
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Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
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Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
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Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand; Acknowledgements; A Note on Romanisation of Chinese; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Maps; 1 Introduction; Technologies of Mobility; Multidisciplinary Approaches; The Chinese Diaspora and Australasia; Notes; 2 The Human Resource; Journeys to the Antipodes; Chinese Horticultural Traditions; Field Systems and Multicropping; Manuring; Individual Care of Plants; Irrigation; British Horticultural Traditions; Indigenous Horticultural Traditions; Chinese Horticulture in the Antipodes; Conclusion; Notes; 3 The Physical Environment |
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Home Soil: The Physical Environment of Southern ChinaNew Soils: The Physical Environments of Australia and New Zealand; Chinese Gardens in New Lands; From Monsoon to Desert; Gardens in the Tropics: Queensland and the Northern Territory; Gardens in the Desert: Western New South Wales and South Australia; Gardens in Cold Climates: New Zealand and Tasmania; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Making a Living in New Gold Mountain; Settler Societies in the Southern Hemisphere; Gardening on the Goldfields; After the Gold Was Gone; Notes; 5 Small Businessmen on the Land; Capital; Labour; Land; Markets and Prices |
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Marketing StrategiesConclusion; Notes; 6 New Ideas in New Lands; Conservatism, Innovation and the Diffusion of Ideas; Inventors and Innovators; Gardening Implements; Motor Vehicles and Tractors; Motor Vehicle and Agricultural Equipment Manufacturers; Transport; Water Storage and Irrigation; Fertilisers; Pest Control; New Growing Methods; Seeds and New Crop Varieties; Built Structures; Conclusion; Notes; 7 The Social Environment; Bonds of Kinship, Language and Native Place; Chinese Market Gardeners and their Homeland; Evolving Overseas Chinese Communities; Bridging the Cultural Divide |
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Aliens or Law Abiding, Industrious Citizens?Interactions in the Local Community; Good Neighbours; Conflict, Cooperation and Circumvention; Cross-Cultural Relationships on the Margins; Conclusion; Notes; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Newspapers; Newspapers; Newspapers; Newspapers; Newspapers; Secondary Sources; Index |
| Summary |
This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora. It is about the mobilisation of knowledge across time and space, exploring the history of Chinese market gardening in Australia and New Zealand. It enlarges our understanding of processes of technological change and human mobility, highlighting the mobility of migrants as an essential element in the mobility and adaptation of technologies. Truly multidisciplinary, Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand incorporates elements of economic, agricultural, social, cultural and environmental history, along with archaeology, to document how Chinese market gardeners from subtropical southern China adapted their horticultural techniques and technologies to novel environments and the demands of European consumers. It shows that they made a significant contribution to the economies of Australia and New Zealand, developing flexible strategies to cope with the vagaries of climate and changing business and social environments which were often hostile towards Asian immigrants. Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of the Chinese diaspora, in particular the history of the Chinese in Australasia; the history of technology; horticultural and garden history; and environmental history, as well as Asian studies more generally.-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Vegetable gardening -- Australia
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Agriculture -- Australia
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Vegetable gardening -- New Zealand
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Agriculture -- New Zealand
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Australasian & Pacific history.
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Social & cultural history.
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Physical geography & topography.
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Asian history.
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GARDENING -- Vegetables.
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Agriculture
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Vegetable gardening
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Australia
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New Zealand
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319518718 |
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3319518712 |
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