... in the context of Aboriginal people of the Murray River in the region of the Victorian Mallee in southeastern Australia, now premier wheat country. It argues through a close examination of work within a “geography of labor” along the river, that Indigenous people at European contact in the 1840s and long before...

...Charles Fahey Abstract In the 1890s agricultural settlers moved into the Victorian Mallee, an area characterized by low rainfall and a deep-rooted eucalyptus mallee scrub. By rolling, cutting, and burning this scrub, large areas could be rapidly brought under cereal crops. The key to success...

...Andrea Gaynor Abstract This paper examines self-sown crops as agents in the agricultural development of Australia’s southern mallee lands from the 1890s to the 1940s. Self-sown crops suggested ways to farm and provided the enticement of an occasional windfall. They assisted with expansion...

...Daniel May Mallee Country: Land, People, History . By Richard Broome , Charles Fahey , Andrea Gaynor , and Katie Holmes . Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2019 . 415 pp., $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-925523-12-6. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 494...

...Katie Holmes; Kylie Mirmohamadi Abstract Between 1926 and 1935 the Better Farming Train made seven trips to the Victorian Mallee region. Modeled on North American examples, the mission of the Train was to spread the “doctrine of better farming” to this wheat-growing region. The Train carried...

... potato recipes. This is a rich, creative, and brilliant analysis of an absolutely not-banal foodstuff, proving once more the relevance of food for l histoire totale. Peter Scholliers Vrije Universiteit Brussel Mallee Country: Land, People, History. By Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor...

.... 16. The killing of rabbits for skins and meat by farmers is a form of wild harvesting widely acknowledged by Australian historians. Other exceptions to this statement not otherwise mentioned in the text include Andrea Gaynor, “Self-sown Crops, Modernity, and the Making of Mallee Agricultural...

... ( 1934 ), 298 -351 "The Thirsty Mallee," Argus (Melbourne), 8, 10, 12, 15 March 1898 25 Yorke’s Peninsula Advertiser, 22 June 1894 Garden and the Field, October 1898, 136 26 Garden and the Field, May 1892, 244 South Yorke’s Peninsula Pioneer, 24 November 1900 27 Garden and the Field...

... 2020 496 Agricultural History mitigating this land degradation to community-based groups such as Landcare. The authors critique of neoliberalism felt a little thin, and Mallee Country may have benefited from a deeper elaboration of neoliberal policies. Mallee Country closes, appropriately...

... Mallee-Recherche Bioregion of Western Australia by Brumby horses challenges traditional assumptions about invasive species and environmental decline. By historicizing the presence of brumbies in Western Australia, Chilmer argues that the presence of those wild horses probably preserved the mallee...

... pleased that our first official issue is a special issue on the Mallee region of southern Australia. These four articles result from an ongoing research project funded by the Australian Research Council. They present a fine-grained environmental history of the region and its development into one...