School of Historical and Philosophical Studies - Theses
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ItemA history of the Australian paper making industry 1818-1951( 1953)The most outstanding feature of the Australian paper industry is the rapid expansion which has taken place since 1936. Before the First World War, Australia’s population totalled about 4,000,000. By 1939 the population had risen to about 7,000,000. This increase in population, coupled with a rise in the per capita consumption of paper and boards, led to a considerably enlarged domestic market. At the same time new fields for the use of paper and board opened up, particularly in the packaging field. (From introduction)
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ItemE.H. Lascelles and the Victorian Mallee: a survey of settlement 1850-1905( 1966)This survey deals with a portion of the Victorian Mal1ee, in the North-West of the state, stretching from Lake Corrong across to Lake Tyrrell. From 1883 to 1890 the area under wheat in Victoria remained stagnant at about 1,100,000 acres as the process of settling farmers on pastoral lands slowed down. The one area in Victoria where the wheatlands increased in the 1890's and 1900's was the Mallee. E. H. Lascelles was largely responsible for the rapid extension of wheat growing in the area during the 1890's. Geographical considerations play a large part in the Mallee story. The area is isolated, the Mallee growth distinctive and the rainfall light and unpredictable. This survey is an attempt to trace the interaction of man and this environment, with the necessary changes and adaptations which took place as the squatters gave way before the selectors. However because the Mallee covers such a large area - virtually all of the North-West corner of the state - it was impossible to survey the whole in such a short study. So E. H. Lascelles and the belt of country in which he was primarily interested formed a suitable and contained segment of the area, with concentration upon the sub-division schemes at Hopetoun and Tyrrell Downs.
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ItemImmigration and assimilation: an outline account of the IR0 immigrants in Australia( 1955)The following considerations are the successive stages of a historic-sociological study of assimilation in its widest sense with the aid of various branches of knowledge, which relate to or deal with the causes, effects, and processes of the transplantation of members of foreign cultures into a new socio-economic and cultural environment. Postwar refugees (and displaced persons) from Eastern Central Europe, resettled in Australia through the agency of the International Refugee Organization have been chosen as the objects of observation. The principal proposition which was followed in this thesis is that: assimilation (integration) is not limited to one side alone but based on reciprocal adjustments between the immigrants and the receiving society, and consists in a great measure of a number of long selective processes; in these, cultural traits are mutually modified, abandoned or assumed according to usefulness or attractiveness irrespective of volition, yet those processes may be hastened or slowed down by the existence of certain attitudes and circumstances; one major factor in this respect consists in the extent to which the pre-immigrational hopes of both the receiving society and the newcomers concerning immigration have materialized. For the determination of the processes of assimilation a brief evaluation of overseas immigrational and assimilational history was undertaken; for the identification of some of the causes of the transplantation of the IRO immigrants various aspects of the Australian and Eastern Central European backgrounds were analyzed; for the establishment of different effects of this population influx an examination of the major adjustment on the part of both the receiving society and the immigrants was performed. (From Introduction)
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ItemA history of the Australian meat export trade, 1865-1939( 1967)This thesis is about the production, treatment and export of meat from Australia between the 1860s, when the trade began, and the Second World War. Primarily it is a study of those involved directly in the trade in Australia - graziers and farmers, meatworks operators and exporters - and of their actions and attitudes. To some extent, however, it has also been necessary to examine the trade in the broader context of Australian rural production as a whole, of domestic demands for meat and stock, and of the leading overseas markets and competitors with Australia in those markets.