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Sustainable Family Farming and Yeoman Ideals 1860 to 2000 in North-West Tasmania
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Henderson, RR, Sustainable Family Farming and Yeoman Ideals 1860 to 2000 in North-West Tasmania, Routledge, London, UK, pp. 284. ISBN 9781032135588 (2021) [Authored Research Book]
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Copyright Statement
Copyright 2021 Rena R. Henderson. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Sustainable Family Farming and Yeoman Ideals in 2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003229841
DOI: doi:10.4324/9781003229841
Abstract
Within the frame of family farming, this book offers a longitudinal study of the Castra district in North-West Tasmania from first European settlement to the end of the twentieth century. It draws upon historical sources for yeomanry characteristics from Britain, Canada, the USA, New Zealand and Australian mainland colonies to show how these characteristics were persistently supportive of family farming.
Surveying farming communities over several generations, this book explores a range of topics including colonial surveying practices, settler families’ motivation, attributes and demographics, the role of Methodism, the ways children were inculcated into yeoman farming enterprises, the role of women as companionate wives and the political participation of farmers in the public sphere. The book also offers a new perspective of three commonly held myths of settlement failure: the settlement of retired Anglo-Indian military and civil officers in the 1870s, the settlement of soldiers on small farms after the Great War and the claims that the ideal of yeoman family farming was anachronistic to capitalist commodity production. The book draws from a wide selection of previously underused primary source materials, including oral histories from current and past residents, to provide a comprehensive overview of an important aspect of rural Australian history.
The book is a valuable contribution to Australian historiography, and will be a useful resource for students and scholars of rural history, social history, environmental history, colonialism and sustainable agriculture.
Item Details
Item Type: | Authored Research Book |
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Keywords: | sustainable family farming, inheritance, succession, yeoman ideals |
Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical studies |
Research Field: | Australian history |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology |
UTAS Author: | Henderson, RR (Mrs Rena Henderson) |
ID Code: | 148608 |
Year Published: | 2021 |
Deposited By: | History and Classics |
Deposited On: | 2022-01-27 |
Last Modified: | 2022-08-29 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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