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Forces Behind South Australia's Unusual Structural Changes Since 1840

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector's share of GDP in growing economies typically declines but, for a century from the early 1850s, Australia's did not. That trend is most evident for the former colony and now State of South Australia (SA). Moreover, that share for SA has been almost flat since 1980 as well, along with the agricultural sector's share of ...
Kym Anderson
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Decoupling sustainability and performance: How government infrastructure projects in Australia fare on strategic environmental commitments

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Australian government organisations are pivotal in helping to meet the United Nations sustainable development goals. Yet while these organisations promote sustainability in their strategic plans, they struggle to embed these same commitments into their own infrastructure and construction projects. This study examines this persistent disconnect
Richard Hughes, Kerry Brown
wiley   +1 more source

“Proven patriots”: the French diplomatic corps, 1789-1799 [PDF]

, 2011
This study analyzes a hitherto unexamined group, the French diplomatic corps during the Revolution (1789 to 1799), and focuses on the question of loyalty and conscience.
Frey, Linda S., Frey, Marsha L.
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Interfaces between language practices and linguistic policies: diglossia, creoleness and teaching of creole languages in the French Antilles

Gragoatá, 2017
In this article we seek to analyse the pedagogical teaching/learning contexts of creole language in the French overseas departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe.
Vanessa Massoni da Rocha
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Post-colonial Trends of Income Inequality: Evidence from the Overseas Departments of France

, 2020
Most ex-colonies have gained their independence during the decolonization wave in the last century. Recent research on the colonial legacy in terms of inequality has thus mostly focused on these independent states, overlooking the territories which have ...
Govind, Yajna
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

The Mathematics Performances of Students in the French Overseas Departments

, 2013
The students of the French Overseas Departments have lower scores in the National Assessments tests than their metropolitan peers. However, contrary to what is stated in literature, the authors note that the difference between the two groups is bigger in mathematics than in French.
Arneton, Mélissa, Bocéréan, Christine, Flieller, André   +2 more
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Water Administration in Mayotte: Islandness in a French Overseas Department

Island Studies Journal
This paper explores the impacts of prolonged drought in Mayotte, a French Overseas Department in the southwestern Indian Ocean. The study examines how islandness, characterized by notions of smallness, boundedness, and remoteness, shapes local discourses, public mobilisations, and interactions among diverse territories in the administration of water ...
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