Twentieth Century Land Settlement Schemes

ISBN-13: 9781138052260 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 244 str.

Roy Jones; Alexandre M. a. Diniz

Opis

The study of land settlement has been central to historical perspectives on regional and national development. For some, the focus has been tied to the mechanics of immigration and spatial expansion of emerging nation states. For others, the focus has been on the rationales, mechanics, and successes and failure of particular projects that range from individual initiatives through to government and corporate ones. This book traces the success, failure, survival and abandonment of these land settlement initiatives in a variety of locations, environments, and political scales, from the late C19th to the early C21st. The chapters consider the extent to which these schemes have been successful over the period since their initial establishment and the underlying reasons for their success or failure, illustrating the varied roles of geographical and historical context as well as that of human agency.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Lives and Legacies of Twentieth Century Land Settlement Schemes 2. Conceptualizing the Frontier 3. Policy Mobilities and Land Settlement Schemes: The Emergence of Homesteading in Western Australia 4. Jewish Farm Settlements and the Jewish Colonization Association in Western Canada 5. Soldier Settlement and the Expansion and Contraction of the Bush Frontier in New Zealand in the 1920s 6. Western Australia’s Interwar Group Settlement Scheme: A Case Study of the Leeds Group 1923-1938 7. The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Sponsored Agricultural Settlement at Vermilion, Alberta, Canada 8. Fordland and Belterra Yesterday and Today: A Regional Political Ecology Approach to Failed Projects in the Amazon 9. Physical and Social Engineering in the Dutch Polders: The Case of the Noordoostpolder10. The Elusive Dream of ‘Development’ on the Agricultural Land Settlement Schemes in Papua New Guinea 11. The Complexities of the Brazilian Amazon Frontier and its Most Recent Chapter: Soybean Expansion in Roraima 12. Conclusion: Relatively Recent Rural Settlement Schemes – Representations, Realities and Results