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Reading the garden : the settlement of Australia
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Reading the garden : the settlement of Australia

Author: Katie Holmes; Susan K Martin; Kylie Mirmohamadi
Publisher: Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2008.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Katie Holmes; Susan K Martin; Kylie Mirmohamadi
ISBN: 9780522851151 0522851150
OCLC Number: 225094922
Description: 284 p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Katie Holmes, Susan K. Martin & Kylie Mirmohamadi.

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by clayton994 (WorldCat user on 2008-05-07)

Part I. Seizing and seeding: colonial endeavours -- 1. Preparing the ground -- 2. Transforming the past and imagining the future -- 3. Tending the memory -- 4. Patrolling the borders: public parks and gardens in the 19th century -- Part II. Dreams and nightmares: national imaginings -- 5. Gardening for the nation -- 6. Schooling the gardener -- 7. Controlling the space: the public park in the 20th century -- 8. Sanctifying the site: garden as memorial, memorial as garden -- 9. Greening the suburbs -- 10. Reimagining the garden -- 11. Whither or wither the garden?

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