So Far and Yet so Close Frontier Cattle Ranching in Prairie Western Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia

• Tác giả khác: Elofson, Warren (Biên tập viên)
• Định dạng: Điện tử Chương của sách
• Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh
• Được phát hành: Calgary University of Calgary Press 2015
• Những chủ đề: Biography & True Stories; Economic history; Animals & society; Business strategy
• Truy cập trực tuyến: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Tóm tắt

So Far and Yet So Close provides a comparative study of frontier cattle ranching in two societies on opposite ends of the globe. It is also an environmental history that at the same time centres on both the natural and frontier environments. There are many points at which the western Canadian and northern Australian cattle frontiers evoke comparisons. Most obviously they came to life at about the same time: late 1870s-early 1880s. In both cases corporations were heavy investors and utilized an open range system in which tens of thousands of cattle roamed over thousands of square acres. Ranchers shared similar problems such as predators, disease, and weather, as well as markets. Ultimately, a nearly indistinguishable "country" culture developed in these geographically disparate and distant lands, which is still apparent today. Many similarities were in one way or another a reflection of frontier environmental conditions that is, conditions associated with the very "newness" of society. They included a lack of infrastructure (ie. fences), institutions (ie. police), and population (ie. consumers). However, the ranching people in these two societies had their differences too. In the end, the natural environment pushed agricultural development in these two regions along very different paths.

Mô tả vật lý

1 electronic resource (330 p.)

số ISBN

9781552387955

Truy cập

Open Access