Twentieth century land settlement schemes. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Roy Jones, Alexandre M.A. Diniz.
• Editors: Jones, Roy, 1946-; Diniz, Alexandre Magno Alves
• Contents: 1. Introduction: The Lives and Legacies of Twentieth Century Land Settlement Schemes (Roy Jones and Alexandre Diniz) 2. Conceptualizing the Frontier (Alexandre Diniz) 3. Policy Mobilities and Land Settlement Schemes: The Emergence of Homesteading in Western Australia (Matthew Tonts and Julia Horsley) 4. Jewish Farm Settlements and the Jewish Colonization Association in Western Canada (John C. Lehr) 5. Soldier Settlement and the Expansion and Contraction of the Bush Frontier in New Zealand in the 1920s ( Michael Roche) 6. Western Australia’s Interwar Group Settlement Scheme: a Case Study of the Leeds Group 1923-1938 ( Mark Brayshay) 7. The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Sponsored Agricultural Settlement at Vermilion, Alberta, Canada (H. John Selwood and James Richtik) 8. Fordland and Belterra Yesterday and Today: A Regional Political Ecology Approach to Failed Projects in the Amazon (Ana Maria de Souza Mello Bicalho and Scott William Hoefle) 9. Physical and Social Engineering in the Dutch Polders: The Case of the Noordoostpolder (Tialda Haartsen and Frans Thissen) 10. The Elusive Dream of ‘Development’ on the Agricultural Land Settlement Schemes in Papua New Guinea (Gina Koczberski, George Curry and Steven Nake) 11. The Complexities of the Brazilian Amazon Frontier and its Most Recent Chapter: Soybean Expansion in Roraima (Alexandre Diniz and Elisangela Lacerda)12. Conclusion: Relatively Recent Rural Settlement Schemes – Representations, Realities and Results (Roy Jones and Alexandre Diniz)
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 333.31; Land settlement -- History -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351684316; 9781351684323; 9781351684309; 9781315167886
• Related ISBNs: 9781138052260
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