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Twentieth century land settlement schemes / edited by Roy Jones and Alexandre M. A. Diniz

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London ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
Physical Description
xvi, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Jones, Roy, 1946- and Diniz, Alexandre Magno Alves

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Contents
List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the lives and legacies of twentieth century land settlement schemes / Roy Jones and Alexandre Diniz -- Conceptualizing the frontier / Alexandre Diniz -- Policy mobilities and land settlement schemes: the emergence of homesteading in western Australia / Matthew Tonts and Julia Horsley -- Jewish farm settlements and the Jewish colonization association in western Canada / John c. Lehr -- Soldier settlement and the expansion and contraction of the bush frontier in New Zealand in the 1920s / Michael Roche -- Western Australia's interwar group settlement scheme: a case study of the leeds group 1923-1938 / Mark Brayshay -- The Hudson's Bay Company's sponsored agricultural settlement at Vermilion, Alberta, Canada / H. John Selwood and James Richtik -- 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 -- Physical and social engineering in the Dutch Polders: the case of the Noordoostpolder / Tialda Haartsen and Frans Thissen -- The elusive dream of "development" on the agricultural land settlement schemes in Papua New Guinea / Gina Koczberski, George Curry and Steven Nake -- The complexities of the Brazilian Amazon frontier and its most recent chapter: soybean expansion in Roraima / Alexandre Diniz and Elisangela Lacerda -- Conclusion: relatively recent rural settlement schemes -- representations, realities and results / Roy Jones and Alexandre Diniz -- Index.
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ISBN
9781138052260 (hbk : alk. paper)
1138052264 (hbk : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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