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Author : Dick Warwick
Release : 2007
Genre : Cowboy poetry
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Book Synopsis Out West to Outback & Beyond by : Dick Warwick
Download or read book Out West to Outback & Beyond written by Dick Warwick. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Lynch
Release : 2022-11
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 883/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Outback and Out West by : Tom Lynch
Download or read book Outback and Out West written by Tom Lynch. This book was released on 2022-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outback and Out West examines the ecological consequences of a settler-colonial imaginary by comparing expressions of settler colonialism in the literature of the American West and Australian Outback. Tom Lynch traces exogenous domination in both regions, which resulted in many similar means of settlement, including pastoralism, homestead acts, afforestation efforts, and bioregional efforts at “belonging.” Lynch pairs the two nations’ texts to show how an analysis at the intersection of ecocriticism and settler colonialism requires a new canon that is responsive to the social, cultural, and ecological difficulties created by settlement in the West and Outback. Outback and Out West draws out the regional Anthropocene dimensions of settler colonialism, considering such pressing environmental problems as habitat loss, groundwater depletion, and mass extinctions. Lynch studies the implications of our settlement heritage on history, art, and the environment through the cross-national comparison of spaces. He asserts that bringing an ecocritical awareness to settler-colonial theory is essential for reconciliation with dispossessed Indigenous populations as well as reparations for ecological damages as we work to decolonize engagement with and literature about these places.
Author : Margaret Way
Release : 2010-10-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 238/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Home to Eden by : Margaret Way
Download or read book Home to Eden written by Margaret Way. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been more than a decade since Nicole Cavanagh'smother was found dead. But the people ofKoomera Crossing are still talking about the rift that herdeath caused between the Cavanaghs and theMcClellands—two powerful and formerly friendly families.Now Nicole has come home to the Outback determined tofind out the truth behind her mother's death.Who would have thought that her one allywould be a McClelland?
Author : J. Bowyer Bell
Release : 2018-02-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 746/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dragonwars by : J. Bowyer Bell
Download or read book Dragonwars written by J. Bowyer Bell. This book was released on 2018-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries international order has been troubled by small wars, insurrections, and revolts--low intensity conflicts. With the implosion of the Soviet empire many thought such violence could be eradicated through the growth of democracy, open societies, and increased productivity and education. Instead the world remains filled with turmoil, pogroms, famine, civil war, rebellion, and terror, often instigated by armed and dangerous zealots. To Americans such killers seem alien and inexplicable, fanatics without reason, beyond the reach of conventional containment or retaliation. J. Bowyer Bell here explores the psychological and strategic ecosystems (which he terms dragon worlds) of modern political violence and suggests how America might effectively deal with it.Dragonwars combines analysis with historical examples drawn from America's involvement with armed struggle in Lebanon, Central Am-erica, Greece, and Vietnam. In each instance, Bell argues, American policy was flawed by lack of empathy and historical understanding combined with a belief that failure could be traced to mistakes in details and procedures. The break up of the old bipolar U.S.-Soviet confrontation released suppressed ambitions, tribal greed, and greater flexibility for the small player. With new technologies of terror, zones of security will become smaller, since open societies present attractive targets for zealots. Bell rejects the notion that massive force can effect a swift and final result. Instead, a new type of warrior will be required; one versed in history and empathetic to the belief-systems of the dragonworlds in which they are deployed.Bell acknowledges that his proposals run counter to American belief and practice, but argues that in the face of insoluble conflicts, incremental advantages, through limited altered global arena, Dragonwars will prove an indispensable guide for policymakers, military planners, historians, and political scientists.
Author : Alan Mayne
Release : 2008
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 008/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beyond the Black Stump by : Alan Mayne
Download or read book Beyond the Black Stump written by Alan Mayne. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have had little to say about the lands that stretch 'beyond the black stump'. These essays from around the country build inland Australia into our national history, crisscrossing both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors are Lorina Barker, Amanda Barry, Badger Bates, Peter Bishop, Nici Cumpston, Jean Duruz, Charles Fahey, Lionel Frost, Heather Goodall, Jenny Gregory, Patricia Grimshaw, Rodney Harrison, Rick Hosking, Darrell Lewis, Alan Mayne, Chrissiejoy Marshall, Margaret Somerville and Richard Waterhouse.
