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Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia

Revisiting the Empty North

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  1. Russell McGregor

    1. James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Anxieties Aroused

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 1-22

  3. Whiteness Versus the Tropics

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 23-43

  4. Acquiring a White Elephant

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 45-63

  5. A Dog in the Manger

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 65-82

  6. Coloring the Empty Spaces

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 83-102

  7. Redeeming the Desolation

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 103-121

  8. Downgrading the North

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 123-137

  9. Vulnerabilities Laid Bare

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 139-159

  10. Modest Projections, Massive Projects

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 161-181

  11. The Divisive North

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 183-201

  12. Whither the White North?

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 203-220

  13. Emptiness Attenuated

    • Russell McGregor
    Pages 221-239

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 241-256
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“The book is, in many ways, a twentieth-century history of high modernity and failed development in a specific environmental and geographic context. … This will be the go-to book that documents that long history.” (Alison Bashford, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 48 (2), May, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

    Russell McGregor

About the author

Russell McGregor is currently Adjunct Professor of History at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. His publications include the award-winning books Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory and Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia

  • Book Subtitle: Revisiting the Empty North

  • Authors: Russell McGregor

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-91509-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-90573-7Published: 09 June 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95651-7Published: 27 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-91509-5Published: 15 June 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 256

  • Topics: Environmental Policy, Area Studies, Australasian History

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