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Title: Environmental History and the Port Phillip District


1
Environmental History and the Port Phillip
District
  • Richard Broome

2
Australian History revolutionary?
  • Revolution
  • a) Overthrow of govt
  • b) Complete change
  • Post 1788 changes
  • Communal to private property
  • Reciprocity to Market economy
  • Radical shift-land use
  • Collins Street by William Macnight NLA ?

3
Why Has Frontier History Ignored the
Environmental approach?
  • Early histories Social Darwinist
  • First Aboriginal histories - focus on violence
  • New themes of Aboriginal agency emerge
  • Environmental history begins, but focus on
    settlers
  • ?Night Attack Samuel Calvert, NLA

4
Land and Landscape
  • Landscape as constructed Seddon
  • As deep and mythical Scharma
  • As a cultural place
  • Cultural landscapes constructed, changing,
    remembered, identity shaping
  • Nature shapes culture Rappaporte
  • An Interdependence

5
The Great Tradition
  • Culture emerges from human interactions from the
    land and land-use
  • An inspired imagining of creation human
    relationships creates dreamings
  • William Barak traditional painting, SLV?

6
The Pastoral Revolution
  • The Great Transformation.. Agora no 4 2013
  • Case of Robertson at Wando Vale
  • Lin Onus Ground Lice (1990)Qlzand Art Gallery?

7
Ideas Underpinning the Revolution in Land Use
  • Dominion Over Nature Book of Genesis
  • Idea of Progress
  • Neolithic prejudices- Esau and Jacob
  • Nature as Unlimited
  • Settler theory of value
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