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Making Sheep Country
Robert Peden
其他書名
Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands
出版
Auckland University Press
, 2013-10-01
主題
Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry
History / Australia & New Zealand
ISBN
1869407466
9781869407469
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JOZaAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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First the squatter, then the runholder, after that the farmer . . . Taking us inside the world of New Zealand's South Island sheepfarmers - the sheep they bred, the rabbits and droughts and floods they fought, the fires they lit, the grass they grew, the risks they took - Peden offers a sweeping portrait of the economic and ecological transformation of New Zealand. From the 1840s to the First World War, the South Island was transformed as runholders claimed large tracts of land, burned off the native vegetation and initiated large-scale sheep farming for wool and, later, meat production. In Making Sheep Country, Robert Peden focuses on one case study in particular, John Barton Acland and Mt Peel Station in South Canterbury, to explain how the pastoralists modified their environment.