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  • A River with a City Problem

    A History of Brisbane Floods

    de Margaret Cook ...
    When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hopes on Wivenhoe Dam to protect them, and when it failed to do so, dam operators were blamed for the scale of the catastrophic events that followed. A River with a City Problem is a compelling history of floods in the Brisbane River catchment ... Leer más

    $10.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A River with a City Problem

    A History of Brisbane Floods

    de Margaret Cook ...
    When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hopes on Wivenhoe Dam to protect them, and when it failed to do so, dam operators were blamed for the scale of the catastrophic events that followed. A River with a City Problem is a compelling history of floods in the Brisbane River catchment ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Fertile expectations

    The politics of involuntary childlessness in twentieth-century France

    de Margaret Cook Andersen ...
    Series series Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
    An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book explores fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an “ideal” family size. When statistics revealed a sustained drop in France’s birthrate, pronatalist activists pushed for financial benefits, propaganda, and punitive measures to counter declining fertility. Situating ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Cities in a Sunburnt Country

    Water and the Making of Urban Australia

    de Margaret Cook, Lionel Frost, Andrea Gaynor, Jenny Gregory, Ruth A. Morgan, Martin Shanahan, Peter Spearritt ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining and expanding water networks are at odds with forms and cultures of urban water use. Cities in a Sunburnt Country is the first comparative study of ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire

    The Colonial Politics of Population

    Edición de Margaret Cook Andersen, Melissa K. Byrnes ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited volume focuses on social welfare and medicine within the French Empire and brings together important currents in both imperial history and the history of medicine. The book covers a broad period from the ‘first colonial empires’ that existed prior to 1830, the ‘new imperialism’ of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the process of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth ... Leer más

    $134.09 USD

  • Regeneration through Empire

    French Pronatalists and Colonial Settlement in the Third Republic

    de Margaret Cook Andersen ...
    Series series France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
    Following France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–71, French patriots feared that their country was in danger of becoming a second-rate power in Europe. Decreasing birth rates had largely slowed French population growth, and the country’s population was not keeping pace with that of its European neighbors. To regain its standing in the European world, France set its sights on building a ... Leer más

    $46.79 USD

  • Border Brothers

    de Margaret Cook ...
    Fergus MacBeath has inherited from his Highland family rare skills as a healer and perhaps other esoteric knowledge. He is rescued from near-fatal injury at Soltre Abbey Hospital, and in time becomes the chief physician there, the medicus. With seeming supernatural abilities, he is regarded among thecountry people as a saint.He is a maverick however and defies Church orthodoxy relating sickness to ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Disasters in Australia and New Zealand

    Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe

    Edición de Scott McKinnon, Margaret Cook ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes, exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what are the anthropogenic causes of ‘natural’ disasters? How have ... Leer más

    $116.09 USD

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  • Grounds For Hope

    Ways to Live Legally on Cheap Land in the UK

    de Chrissie Sugden ...
    From the introduction...I don't suppose I'm the only person who has always dreamed of owning a piece of land on which I can build myself an affordable eco-house and grow my own food and fuel. In my fantasy the land is big enough to support several households, inhabited by all my favourite people, so we can share the joys and the chores in our own little eco-community.The reason this is difficult ... Leer más

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  • Memo for a Saner World

    de Bob Brown ...
    Over the years, Bob Brown has been assaulted, jailed, vilified and shot at for his stance on the environment and human rights. This is his account of the defining moments in that life of activism, from the famous Franklin River blockade to his parliamentary protest against George Bush – a few minutes that gave voice to what many Australians felt but had no way of saying.By turns inspiring, ... Leer más

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  • River Dreams

    The people and landscape of the Cooks River

    de Ian Tyrrell ...
    River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney—a river renowned as Australia's most altered and polluted. While nineteenth century developers called it "improvement," the sugar mill, tanneries, and factories that lined the banks of Sydney's Cooks River had drastic consequences for the health of the river. While much of the river has been rehabilitated in recent ... Leer más

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