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Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia Revisiting the Empty North
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Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia [electronic resource] : Revisiting the Empty North / by Russell McGregor.
ISBN
9781349915095
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Physical Description
XIX, 256 p. : online resource.
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Summary
This new study offers a timely and compelling account of why past generations of Australians have seen the north of the country as an empty land, and how those perceptions of Australia’s tropical regions impact current policy and shape the self-image of the nation. It considers the origins of these concerns - from fears of invasion and moral qualms about leaving resources lying idle, from apprehensions about white nationhood coming under international censure and misgivings about the natural attributes of the north - and elucidates Australians’ changing appreciations of the natural environments of the north, their shifting attitudes toward race and their unsettled conceptions of Asia.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 26, 2016
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Anxieties Aroused
Chapter 2: Whiteness versus the Tropics
Chapter 3: Acquiring a White Elephant
Chapter 4: A Dog in the Manger
Chapter 5: Colouring the Empty Spaces
Chapter 6: Redeeming the Desolation
Chapter 7: Downgrading the North
Chapter 8: Vulnerabilities Laid Bare
Chapter 9: Modest Projections, Massive Projects
Chapter 10: The Divisive North
Chapter 11: Whither the White North?
Chapter 12: Emptiness Attenuated
Epilogue, or Are We There Yet?.
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