Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 ‘Beautiful Tasmania’: Environmental Consciousness in John Watt Beattie’s Romantic Wilderness
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'This article explores an orientation to nature in fin de siècle Tasmania. I argue that this orientation drew upon a romantic tradition to support a sympathetic environmental consciousness among settlers. This consciousness was apprehended through the public work of wilderness photographers like John Watt Beattie. The explication of such a culture of sympathetic environmental consciousness through the archive of Beattie himself offers an alternative to existing accounts of the development of conservation ideology and environmentalism in the Australian colonies in the late nineteenth century.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 14 no. 1 2017 11061063 2017 periodical issue

    'One of the main efforts of the current and past editorial teams of History Australiahas been to globalise the scope and content of the journal. In the spirit of this endeavour, and within a section called‘Historical Practice’, we begin this issue with a short article commissioned by our predecessors from leading scholar Professor G. Balachandran (Geneva Institute of International and Development Studies,Switzerland).' (From the editors)

    2017
    pg. 48-66
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