Robert Peden Making Sheep Country (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Making Sheep CountryCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackSubtitle: Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock LandsEAN: 9781869404857ISBN: 9781869404857Publisher: Auckland University PressRelease Date: 05/01/2011Description: After attending university for the first time in 1969, Robert Peden spent 25 years shepherding and managing high country sheep stations in the South Island of New Zealand. He returned to university in 1999, completing an Honours and a Master's degree in history at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, before moving to the University of Otago and tackling a PhD under Professor Tom Brooking on the agricultural transformation of New Zealand's tussock grasslands. His thesis won Otago University's formal recognition as an "exceptional" in 2007. in 2009, Dr Peden was awarded a Claude McCarthy Fellowship which allowed him to complete turning his thesis into his first book, Making Sheep Country: The Transformation of the Tussock Lands, to be published by Auckland University Press in May 2010. Now an independent historian based in Christchurch, he has been a Researcher/Writer for Treaty of Waitangi claims and has worked on Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, for which he wrote sections for Theme 4, The Settled Landscape, on Fire and Agriculture, Beef Farming, Farm Fencing, Farming in the Economy, Agricultural Education, and Rabbits and co-wrote the section on Sheep Farming.Dr Peden is a member of the Professional Historians' Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa (PHANZA) and of the Australia & New Zealand Environmental History Network.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: NZAuthor: Robert PedenGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Technology & EngineeringRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Making Sheep Country

Title: Making Sheep Country

Subtitle: Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands

EAN: 9781869404857

ISBN: 9781869404857

Release Date: 05/01/2011

Release Year: 2011

Country/Region of Manufacture: NZ

Genre: Science Nature & Math

Topic: Technology & Engineering

Number of Pages: 296 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Making Sheep Country : Mt. Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Item Height: 0.9 in

Publication Year: 2011

Subject: Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, Agriculture / General, Australia & New Zealand

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 32.2 Oz

Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, History

Item Length: 9.5 in

Author: Robert Peden

Item Width: 7.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback