Nugget Coombs
Subtitle: A Reforming Life
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780521677837
Subjects: Biography: general; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Australia; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Economics - General
First sentence: THE CHILDHOOD AND adolescence of Herbert Cole Coombs were shaped by two modernising forces that transformed the landscape and social life of the south-west of Western Australia in the thirty years (1895-1925) after the Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie gold rushes: the spread of a railway system to open up land to intensive agriculture, and the systematic cultivation of children's minds, wherever their parents tilled the soil, in a comprehensive and newly professionalised public education system.