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Mallee Country
Land, People, History
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MalleeCountry MalleeCountry '...a rich compendium that exposes the roots of many callous policies that continue state-sanctioned assaults on people and ecosystems. As tales of mass fish death, of drought-relief packages, and of billions of dollars allocated to dams and pipelines inundate the news, Mallee Country Mallee Country Mallee Country
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Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government-backed settlement schemes devastated lives and country, but some farmers learnt how to survive the droughts, dust storms, mice, locusts, and salinity as well as the vagaries of international markets to become some of Australia's most resilient agriculturalists. In mallee country, innovation and tenacity have been neighbours to hardship and failure.
Mallee Country is a story of how land and people shape each other. It is the story of how a landscape once derided by settlers as a 'howling wilderness' covered in 'dismal scrub' became home to citizens who delighted in mallee fauna and flora, and fought to conserve it for future generations. And it is the story of the dreams, sweat, and sorrows of people who face an uncertain future of depopulation and climate change with creativity and hope.
'...a rich compendium that exposes the roots of many callous policies that continue state-sanctioned assaults on people and ecosystems. As tales of mass fish death, of drought-relief packages, and of billions of dollars allocated to dams and pipelines inundate the news, Mallee Country is a sobering reminder that we've seen it before. What is different now is the scale and urgency of the problems. Mallee Country is an urgent environmental history for these troubled times. As the authors forewarn, the super-imposition of rapid climate change will bring longer-term and wider-reaching consequences to the Mallee... Mallee Country can be read as a history for the future; a warning of what happens when we forget to remember.' - Lilian Pearce, Australian Book Review
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781925523126
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 November 2019
Country: Australia
Imprint: Monash University Publishing
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 416
About the Author
Richard Broome is Emeritus Professor in History at La Trobe University and President of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. He is the author of 14 books on Indigenous and Australian History, his most recent being A Naga Odyssey: Visierβs Long Way Home (2017) with Visier SanyΓΌ, and Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 (2019, 5th edition). Charles Fahey taught history at La Trobe University, Melbourne until his retirement in 2018. His research explores Australian Labor, rural and mining History. With Alan Mayne he published Gold Tailings: Forgotten Histories of Family and Community on the Central Victorian Goldfields (2010). Andrea Gaynor is Associate Professor of History, Chair of the History Discipline Group and Director of the Centre for Western Australian History at the University of Western Australia. An environmental historian, she seeks to use the contextualising and narrative power of history to help address environmental problems. Katie Holmes is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Inland at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her work integrates environmental, gender and oral history, and seeks to understand the experience of Australian settlement. Her most recent book is Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens (2011).
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