Search results
Library of South Australia and its Forerunners (Netley, South Australia, 1986). 21 See the article by Alison Gregg on the history of the library in Gregory and Gothard (eds), Encyclopedia of Western Australia, pp. 530–1. 22 John M. MacKenzie, Museums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (Manchester, 1909), pp. 85–86. 23 John McQuarrie (ed.), The Hill (Ottawa, 2015), pp. 92–101. 24 There is a great deal of information about Carnegie libraries on the web. Many of the publications on the libraries relate to the United States, but see
2005. Also MacKenzie (ed.), Imperialism and the Natural World (Manchester, 1990); Jeffrey Richards and MacKenzie, The Railway Station: A Social History (Oxford, 1986). I contributed all the non-European chapters to this book. MacKenzie, Museums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (Manchester, 2009); MacKenzie, ‘Missionaries, Science and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Africa’ in Andrew Porter (ed.), The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880–1914 (Grand Rapids, MI and Cambridge, 2003), pp. 106–130; MacKenzie
. 51 James Belich, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict (London, 1986). See also John M. MacKenzie, Museums and Empire (Manchester, 2009), particularly chapters 8 and 9. 52 Ibid., chapters 2 and 3. It is true that wooden carving traditions often assumed natural deterioration and destruction, as did some indigenous building traditions, but the assumption in these cases was that they would be continuously renewed. It was that renewal that often came to an end. 53 James Danschuk, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation