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Paper has been the material of bureaucracy, and paperwork performs functions of order, control, and surveillance. This book explores how those functions transform over time, allowing private challenges to the…
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James Dunk
What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out…
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James T. Porter
The natural unspoiled beauty of the truly tropical Family Islands of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef coastline has always been an alluring attraction for mankind.
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The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors…
