Abideth forever? Global use of semiarid lands in the interwar years

Focusses on the inter-war period when new nationalisms, old imperial networks, and the burgeoning ambitions of scientists combined to create new systems of land use in semi-arid regions. Despite regional protests, control over agrarian economic policy remained outside the producing regions: whether wheat farmers, graziers, or irrigators, the peoples of the semi-arid lands were dependent upon decisions made in humid industrialising fringes which were in turn peripheral to the metropolitan hearths. -J.Sheail