Taming the Great South Land: A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia | 
|  | | | Title: | Taming the Great South Land: A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia | | Author: | William J. Lines | | Publisher: | University of Georgia Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | April, 1999 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0820320560 / 9780820320564 | | List Price: | $18.95 | | You Save: | $14.66 | | Amazon Price: | $4.29 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastationfrom the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect.
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• A War Against The Land ? 19 September, 2008
The bombastic, triumphalist tone of the title is meant in sarcasm. The author describes in impressive detail how Australia was settled by the British. But instead of following the standard path of focusing on the growth of the cities, he looks instead at the farming sector. Along with how water and other resources were harnessed to feed the cities.
Much of the original environment was drastically altered, at least in the coastal regions where farms could be established. The non-native livestock and crops thrived. So too did species like foxes and rabbits and cane toads. The narrative is almost one of a war against the land.
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