Title: Bush and backwoods; a comparison of the frontier in Australia and the United States.
Authors: Allen, H. C. 1917-
Publisher: Michigan State University Press,
Year: 1959
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life United States; Frontier and pioneer life Australia; United States Historical geography.; Australia Historical geography.
Contents: 1. Geography: external -- internal -- 2. Peoples: white settlers -- other settlers -- convict and slave -- immigration -- Indians and Aborigines -- 3. Produce: Subsistence agriculture -- Alcohol -- Fisheries -- Fur and timber -- Staple crops; tobacco, cotton, sugar -- Wool -- Cotton and wool -- Cattle -- 4. Land: American and Australian development -- American Land Legislation -- Australian Land Legislation -- Similarities and contrasts -- 5. Mining and money: Precious metals -- Currency -- 6. Frontier techniques: Transportation -- Communications -- Tools, machines and methods -- Irrigation -- 7. Effects of the frontier: Americanization -- Idealism -- Democracy -- Self-reliance; individualism and collectivism; equality and free land -- Self government and lawlessness; nationalism; wastefulness; ingenuity and energy -- 8. Turner and two continents: The Turner thesis -- Man on the frontier.