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Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection
of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading
experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions
about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes,
exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what
are the anthropogenic causes of 'natural' disasters? How have
disasters been remembered or forgotten? And how have societies over
generations responded to or understood disaster? As climate change
escalates disaster risk in Australia, New Zealand and around the
world, these questions have assumed greater urgency. This unique
collection poses a challenge to learn from past experiences and to
implement behavioural and policy change. Rich in oral history and
archival research, Disasters in Australia and New Zealand offers
practical and illuminating insights that will appeal to historians
and disaster scholars across multiple disciplines.
This edited volume focuses on social welfare and medicine within
the French Empire and brings together important currents in both
imperial history and the history of medicine. The book covers a
broad period from the ‘first colonial empires’ that existed
prior to 1830, the ‘new imperialism’ of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, the process of decolonisation in the
mid-twentieth century, and the ‘afterlives’ of colonial regimes
in France and newly-independent states. Building on recent
scholarship, this volume examines the extension of imperialism into
the post-colonial period. The chapters examine a range of topics
developing our understanding of the reasons why colonial states saw
the family as a site for biopolitical intervention. The authors
argue that experts built a racialised body of knowledge about
colonial populations through census data and medical understandings
of problems such as child mortality and infertility. They show that
by analysing and compiling data on fertility, population growth (or
decline), and health, this fuelled interventions designed to ensure
a stable workforce, and that protecting children and mothers,
vaccinating vulnerable populations, and creating modern, sanitary
housing were all initiatives also aimed at serving larger goals of
preserving colonial rule. Finally, the book shows that social
welfare projects during the French Empire reflected concerns about
race, differential fertility, and migration that continued well
after decolonisation.
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection
of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading
experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions
about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes,
exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what
are the anthropogenic causes of 'natural' disasters? How have
disasters been remembered or forgotten? And how have societies over
generations responded to or understood disaster? As climate change
escalates disaster risk in Australia, New Zealand and around the
world, these questions have assumed greater urgency. This unique
collection poses a challenge to learn from past experiences and to
implement behavioural and policy change. Rich in oral history and
archival research, Disasters in Australia and New Zealand offers
practical and illuminating insights that will appeal to historians
and disaster scholars across multiple disciplines.
Independent publishing is the ticket for writers to get noticed and
develop a base of readers. This Jump-Start Guide for Independent
Publishing takes the guess work out of how to affordably publish
books and articles. This is a second book in the Entrepreneurial
First Step Guide series to help Jump-Start the entrepreneurial
success. Writers can quickly and economically enter the market and
take advantage of the latest technological advances. This no frills
guide is practical and relevant for anyone who has written a book
or article. The book explains independent publishing models,
independent publishing services, how and when to use independent
publishing professionals and step by step instructions on some of
the more challenging aspects of eBook formatting.
Enjoy these reflections on Christian faith. In this collection of
writings, Joanne Sampl shares her life in a refreshing easy spirit
format. She reveals the humor and grace in her own everyday
experiences as a young wife and mother juggling faith, family, work
and life. Joanne has a knack for enabling the reader to see how
God, using ordinary activities to build faith and character,
reveals Himself.
As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights
can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water
yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap
water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining and
expanding water networks are at odds with forms and cultures of
urban water use. Cities in a Sunburnt Country is the first
comparative study of the provision, use, and social impact of water
and water infrastructure in Australia's five largest cities.
Drawing on environmental, urban, and economic history, this
co-authored book challenges widely held assumptions, both in
Australia and around the world, about water management,
consumption, and sustainability. From the 'living water' of
Aboriginal cultures to the rise of networked water infrastructure,
the book invites us to take a long view of how water has shaped our
cities, and how urban water systems and cultures might weather a
warming world.
Following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71,
French patriots feared that their country was in danger of becoming
a second-rate power in Europe. Decreasing birth rates had largely
slowed French population growth, and the country's population was
not keeping pace with that of its European neighbors. To regain its
standing in the European world, France set its sights on building a
vast colonial empire while simultaneously developing a policy of
pronatalism to reverse these demographic trends. Though
representing distinct political movements, colonial supporters and
pronatalist organizations were born of the same crisis and
reflected similar anxieties concerning France's trajectory and
position in the world.
"Regeneration through Empire" explores the intersection between
colonial lobbyists and pronatalists in France's Third Republic.
Margaret Cook Andersen argues that as the pronatalist movement
became more organized at the end of the nineteenth century,
pronatalists increasingly understood their demographic crisis in
terms that transcended the boundaries of the metropole and began to
position the French empire, specifically its colonial holdings in
North Africa and Madagascar, as a key component in the nation's
regeneration. Drawing on an array of primary sources from French
archives, "Regeneration through Empire" is the first book to
analyze the relationship between depopulation and
imperialism.
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