Making Sheep Country: MT Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands - Peden, Robert
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First the squatter, then the runholder, after that the farmer . . . From the 1840s to the First World War, the South Island of New Zealand was transformed as runholders claimed large tracts of land, burned off the native vegetation and initiated large-scale sheep farming for wool and, later, meat production. In Making Sheep Country, Robert Peden focuses on one case study in particular, John Barton Acland and Mt Peel Station in South Canterbury, to explain how the pastoralists modified their environment. Taking us inside the world of the farmers - the sheep they bred, the rabbits and droughts…mehr

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First the squatter, then the runholder, after that the farmer . . . From the 1840s to the First World War, the South Island of New Zealand was transformed as runholders claimed large tracts of land, burned off the native vegetation and initiated large-scale sheep farming for wool and, later, meat production. In Making Sheep Country, Robert Peden focuses on one case study in particular, John Barton Acland and Mt Peel Station in South Canterbury, to explain how the pastoralists modified their environment. Taking us inside the world of the farmers - the sheep they bred, the rabbits and droughts and floods they fought, the fires they lit, the grass they grew, the risks they took - Peden offers a sweeping portrait of the economic and ecological transformation of New Zealand.
Autorenporträt
Robert Peden is an independent historian, a member of the Professional Historians' Association of New Zealand, and a former shepherd and manager of high-country sheep stations. He is a contributor to Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.