Abstract
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
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 151-170 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Great Plains Quarterly |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 1986 |