John Pickard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Pickard |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Pickard |
| SIGNATURE | PICKARD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1342-5078 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1891 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Fencing of Wanderowna by Rolf Boldrewood: How Much Fact, How Much Fiction
From 1864 to 1867, Australian novelist Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne) was resident manager of the Riverina sheep run Bundidjaree. During this time, he fenced the run but left penniless after droughts and falling prices broke him. These experiences formed the background to his 12-part serial, The Fencing of Wanderowna: A Tale of Squatting Life, published anonymously in the Australian Town and Country Journal from June to August 1873. In…
Early Australian rabbit-proof fences: Paling, slab and stub fences, modified dry stone walls, and wire netting
Fences were critical in the fight against rabbits in colonial Australia. Initially, domestic rabbits were farmed in pens or paddocks fenced with paling fences or walls. Wild-caught rabbits imported from England escaped and became serious pests from the 1850s. As their status changed from protected private property to a major pest, the functions of fences changed to fencing rabbits out. Legislation requiring or specifying rabbit-proof fences lagge…
Aeolian sequence and the archaeological record in the fuegian steppe, Argentina
Wire Fences in Colonial Australia: Technology Transfer and Adaptation, 1842–1900
After reviewing the development of wire fencing in Great Britain and the United States of America in the early nineteenth century, I examine the introduction of wire into Australia using published sources only. Wire was available in the colonies from the early 1850s. The earliest published record of a wire fence was on Phillip Island near Melbourne (Victoria) in 1842. Almost a decade passed before wire was used elsewhere in Victoria and the other…
Shepherding in Colonial Australia
Shepherds were a critical component of the early wool industry in colonial Australia and persisted even after fencing was adopted and rapidly spread in the later nineteenth century. Initially shepherds were convicts, but after transportation ceased in the late 1840s, emancipists and free men were employed. Their duty was the same as in England: look after the flock during the day, and pen them nightly in folds made of hurdles. Analysis of wages a…
Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities
Book Review| April 01 2008 Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities. Andrea Gaynor. John Pickard John Pickard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 238–239. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.2.238 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site…
The Transition from Shepherding to Fencing in Colonial Australia
The transition from shepherding to fencing in colonial Australia was a technological revolution replacing labour with capital. Fencing could not be widespread in Australia until an historical conjunction of technological, social and economic changes: open camping of sheep (from about 1810), effective poisoning of dingoes with strychnine (from the mid-1840s), introduction of iron wire (1840s), better land tenure (from 1847), progressive reduction …
Australian Rural Fences: Heritage Challenges for Conserving the Unconservable
Fences are ubiquitous in all settled areas of rural Australia and those older than 50 years qualify as historic heritage. However, the linear nature of fences (kilometres long and only millimetres wide), complicated by joint ownership on boundaries, pose severe challenges for heritage management. They are threatened by combinations of decay, termite attack, fire, flood, and replacement or maintenance. These threats are illustrated using several e…
Post and Rail Fences: Derivation, Development, and Demise of Rural Technology in Colonial Australia
Post and rail fences had a relatively minor role in England in the eighteenth century, primarily to protect young hedges. However, they rapidly became the most advanced form of fences in the new Australian colonies founded in 1788 and later. The key feature is that thinned tenons on the ends of rectangular split rails fit closely into mortises cut in the rectangular split posts. Post and rail fences were widespread but never common because of the…
Recent Trends and Implications of Group Ranch Sub-Division and Fragmentation in Kajiado District, Kenya
The Kenyan Government introduced group ranches in Kajiado District in the 1960s. They were aimed at addressing the problem of overgrazing and land degradation, said to be occurring in the pastoral arid and semi-arid areas, by converting communal to group tenure.This was expected to encourage the Maasai nomadic pastoralists to confine their livestock within ranch boundaries and reduce their livestock numbers. Although group ranches in Kajiado fail…
Griffith Taylor's ‘palimpsest theory’ of the dry valleys of Victoria land, antarctica
Griffith Taylor was the first geomorphologist to work in the Dry Valleys of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Following his field work in February 1911, he proposed a multistage model in which earlier cirque erosion was later swamped by expanding outlet glaciers. Subsequently these glaciers retreated leaving the present form of the valleys. The topography retained the imprint of each episode, hence his name ‘palimpsest theory’. I summarise late…
Rules by which we judge one another
Glacial Crooked Lake, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica
Glacial Crooked Lake was an ice-dammed impoundment in Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica, that had a volume of (250 ± 45) × 10 m. The impoundment is inferred to have existed during deglaciation following the Late Holocene Chelnok Advance of Sørsdal Glacier. The dam released water incrementally, allowing the formation of four major series of shorelines with a maximum height of 24 m above the current lake level of 22 m asl. Water from Glacial Crooked …
Do old survey plans help us discover what happened to western New South Wales when Europeans arrived
After 150 years of European occupation, the landscapes of semi-arid western New South Wales have changed substantially. The fundamental cause is grazing by domestic stock, and attempts by graziers to survive financially. Comparison of early survey plans with contemporary surveys of “Myall”, a typical sheep property near Wilcannia, are used to determine the nature of changes and their magnitude. Overall, no changes can be detected even though they…
Audible wind-generated shock waves in Antarctica
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Pingos in Antarctica
Pingos, or ice-cored mounds, are described for the first time from Antarctica and for the first time on ice-cored moraine. Seven pingos up to 4 m high and 12 m in diameter occur on former dering of lakes on the moraine exposes water-saturated sediments to freezing and consequent lake sediments on Flanders Moraine, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica (68°40'S 78°00'E). Lateral wandering formation of closed-system pingos. The pingos are probably only a few …
The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
Journal Article The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. Ed. by John B. Pickard. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Vol. I: 1828–1845. xxxv + 684 pp. Illustrations, notes, and works cited. Vol. II: 1846–1860. x + 482 pp. Illustrations and notes. Vol. III: 1861–1892. xi + 735 pp. Illustrations, chart, notes, and index. $75.00 the set.) Get access William J. Gilmore William J. Gilmore Stockton State College, New Jersey Search for other work…
The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier and Mary Emerson Smith
John Greenleaf Whittier and the Abolitionist Schism of 1840
any history of colonial America, but a proper understanding of its author is essential before the right questions may be asked. Douglass' political theories are perhaps the most clearly stated and most consistently conceived of any colonial of his generation. His plan of imperial reorganization, written in 1747, certainly deserves more attention than it has received. Was he successful in persuading the publick boards of the need for colonial refo…
John Greenleaf Whittier
The Artemis Brauronia of Praxiteles
The Orpheus Relief
Excavations by the School at Eretria in 1891. VI. A Topographical Study of Eretria
Recent Trends and Implications of Group Ranch Sub-Division and Fragmentation in Kajiado District, Kenya
The Kenyan Government introduced group ranches in Kajiado District in the 1960s. They were aimed at addressing the problem of overgrazing and land degradation, said to be occurring in the pastoral arid and semi-arid areas, by converting communal to group tenure.This was expected to encourage the Maasai nomadic pastoralists to confine their livestock within ranch boundaries and reduce their livestock numbers. Although group ranches in Kajiado fail…
Wire Fences in Colonial Australia: Technology Transfer and Adaptation, 1842–1900
After reviewing the development of wire fencing in Great Britain and the United States of America in the early nineteenth century, I examine the introduction of wire into Australia using published sources only. Wire was available in the colonies from the early 1850s. The earliest published record of a wire fence was on Phillip Island near Melbourne (Victoria) in 1842. Almost a decade passed before wire was used elsewhere in Victoria and the other…
The Transition from Shepherding to Fencing in Colonial Australia
The transition from shepherding to fencing in colonial Australia was a technological revolution replacing labour with capital. Fencing could not be widespread in Australia until an historical conjunction of technological, social and economic changes: open camping of sheep (from about 1810), effective poisoning of dingoes with strychnine (from the mid-1840s), introduction of iron wire (1840s), better land tenure (from 1847), progressive reduction …
Rules by which we judge one another
Griffith Taylor's ‘palimpsest theory’ of the dry valleys of Victoria land, antarctica
Griffith Taylor was the first geomorphologist to work in the Dry Valleys of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Following his field work in February 1911, he proposed a multistage model in which earlier cirque erosion was later swamped by expanding outlet glaciers. Subsequently these glaciers retreated leaving the present form of the valleys. The topography retained the imprint of each episode, hence his name ‘palimpsest theory’. I summarise late…
The Fencing of Wanderowna by Rolf Boldrewood: How Much Fact, How Much Fiction
From 1864 to 1867, Australian novelist Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne) was resident manager of the Riverina sheep run Bundidjaree. During this time, he fenced the run but left penniless after droughts and falling prices broke him. These experiences formed the background to his 12-part serial, The Fencing of Wanderowna: A Tale of Squatting Life, published anonymously in the Australian Town and Country Journal from June to August 1873. In…
Shepherding in Colonial Australia
Shepherds were a critical component of the early wool industry in colonial Australia and persisted even after fencing was adopted and rapidly spread in the later nineteenth century. Initially shepherds were convicts, but after transportation ceased in the late 1840s, emancipists and free men were employed. Their duty was the same as in England: look after the flock during the day, and pen them nightly in folds made of hurdles. Analysis of wages a…
Australian Rural Fences: Heritage Challenges for Conserving the Unconservable
Fences are ubiquitous in all settled areas of rural Australia and those older than 50 years qualify as historic heritage. However, the linear nature of fences (kilometres long and only millimetres wide), complicated by joint ownership on boundaries, pose severe challenges for heritage management. They are threatened by combinations of decay, termite attack, fire, flood, and replacement or maintenance. These threats are illustrated using several e…
Post and Rail Fences: Derivation, Development, and Demise of Rural Technology in Colonial Australia
Post and rail fences had a relatively minor role in England in the eighteenth century, primarily to protect young hedges. However, they rapidly became the most advanced form of fences in the new Australian colonies founded in 1788 and later. The key feature is that thinned tenons on the ends of rectangular split rails fit closely into mortises cut in the rectangular split posts. Post and rail fences were widespread but never common because of the…
The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
Journal Article The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. Ed. by John B. Pickard. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Vol. I: 1828–1845. xxxv + 684 pp. Illustrations, notes, and works cited. Vol. II: 1846–1860. x + 482 pp. Illustrations and notes. Vol. III: 1861–1892. xi + 735 pp. Illustrations, chart, notes, and index. $75.00 the set.) Get access William J. Gilmore William J. Gilmore Stockton State College, New Jersey Search for other work…
Excavations by the School at Eretria in 1891. VI. A Topographical Study of Eretria
The Artemis Brauronia of Praxiteles
The Orpheus Relief
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier and the Abolitionist Schism of 1840
any history of colonial America, but a proper understanding of its author is essential before the right questions may be asked. Douglass' political theories are perhaps the most clearly stated and most consistently conceived of any colonial of his generation. His plan of imperial reorganization, written in 1747, certainly deserves more attention than it has received. Was he successful in persuading the publick boards of the need for colonial refo…
John Greenleaf Whittier and Mary Emerson Smith
The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
Journal Article The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. Ed. by John B. Pickard. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Vol. I: 1828–1845. xxxv + 684 pp. Illustrations, notes, and works cited. Vol. II: 1846–1860. x + 482 pp. Illustrations and notes. Vol. III: 1861–1892. xi + 735 pp. Illustrations, chart, notes, and index. $75.00 the set.) Get access William J. Gilmore William J. Gilmore Stockton State College, New Jersey Search for other work…
The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
Pingos in Antarctica
Pingos, or ice-cored mounds, are described for the first time from Antarctica and for the first time on ice-cored moraine. Seven pingos up to 4 m high and 12 m in diameter occur on former dering of lakes on the moraine exposes water-saturated sediments to freezing and consequent lake sediments on Flanders Moraine, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica (68°40'S 78°00'E). Lateral wandering formation of closed-system pingos. The pingos are probably only a few …
Audible wind-generated shock waves in Antarctica
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Do old survey plans help us discover what happened to western New South Wales when Europeans arrived
After 150 years of European occupation, the landscapes of semi-arid western New South Wales have changed substantially. The fundamental cause is grazing by domestic stock, and attempts by graziers to survive financially. Comparison of early survey plans with contemporary surveys of “Myall”, a typical sheep property near Wilcannia, are used to determine the nature of changes and their magnitude. Overall, no changes can be detected even though they…
Rules by which we judge one another
Glacial Crooked Lake, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica
Glacial Crooked Lake was an ice-dammed impoundment in Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica, that had a volume of (250 ± 45) × 10 m. The impoundment is inferred to have existed during deglaciation following the Late Holocene Chelnok Advance of Sørsdal Glacier. The dam released water incrementally, allowing the formation of four major series of shorelines with a maximum height of 24 m above the current lake level of 22 m asl. Water from Glacial Crooked …
Griffith Taylor's ‘palimpsest theory’ of the dry valleys of Victoria land, antarctica
Griffith Taylor was the first geomorphologist to work in the Dry Valleys of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Following his field work in February 1911, he proposed a multistage model in which earlier cirque erosion was later swamped by expanding outlet glaciers. Subsequently these glaciers retreated leaving the present form of the valleys. The topography retained the imprint of each episode, hence his name ‘palimpsest theory’. I summarise late…
Recent Trends and Implications of Group Ranch Sub-Division and Fragmentation in Kajiado District, Kenya
The Kenyan Government introduced group ranches in Kajiado District in the 1960s. They were aimed at addressing the problem of overgrazing and land degradation, said to be occurring in the pastoral arid and semi-arid areas, by converting communal to group tenure.This was expected to encourage the Maasai nomadic pastoralists to confine their livestock within ranch boundaries and reduce their livestock numbers. Although group ranches in Kajiado fail…
Post and Rail Fences: Derivation, Development, and Demise of Rural Technology in Colonial Australia
Post and rail fences had a relatively minor role in England in the eighteenth century, primarily to protect young hedges. However, they rapidly became the most advanced form of fences in the new Australian colonies founded in 1788 and later. The key feature is that thinned tenons on the ends of rectangular split rails fit closely into mortises cut in the rectangular split posts. Post and rail fences were widespread but never common because of the…
The Transition from Shepherding to Fencing in Colonial Australia
The transition from shepherding to fencing in colonial Australia was a technological revolution replacing labour with capital. Fencing could not be widespread in Australia until an historical conjunction of technological, social and economic changes: open camping of sheep (from about 1810), effective poisoning of dingoes with strychnine (from the mid-1840s), introduction of iron wire (1840s), better land tenure (from 1847), progressive reduction …
Australian Rural Fences: Heritage Challenges for Conserving the Unconservable
Fences are ubiquitous in all settled areas of rural Australia and those older than 50 years qualify as historic heritage. However, the linear nature of fences (kilometres long and only millimetres wide), complicated by joint ownership on boundaries, pose severe challenges for heritage management. They are threatened by combinations of decay, termite attack, fire, flood, and replacement or maintenance. These threats are illustrated using several e…
Shepherding in Colonial Australia
Shepherds were a critical component of the early wool industry in colonial Australia and persisted even after fencing was adopted and rapidly spread in the later nineteenth century. Initially shepherds were convicts, but after transportation ceased in the late 1840s, emancipists and free men were employed. Their duty was the same as in England: look after the flock during the day, and pen them nightly in folds made of hurdles. Analysis of wages a…
Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities
Book Review| April 01 2008 Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities. Andrea Gaynor. John Pickard John Pickard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 238–239. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.2.238 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site…
Wire Fences in Colonial Australia: Technology Transfer and Adaptation, 1842–1900
After reviewing the development of wire fencing in Great Britain and the United States of America in the early nineteenth century, I examine the introduction of wire into Australia using published sources only. Wire was available in the colonies from the early 1850s. The earliest published record of a wire fence was on Phillip Island near Melbourne (Victoria) in 1842. Almost a decade passed before wire was used elsewhere in Victoria and the other…
Aeolian sequence and the archaeological record in the fuegian steppe, Argentina
The Fencing of Wanderowna by Rolf Boldrewood: How Much Fact, How Much Fiction
From 1864 to 1867, Australian novelist Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne) was resident manager of the Riverina sheep run Bundidjaree. During this time, he fenced the run but left penniless after droughts and falling prices broke him. These experiences formed the background to his 12-part serial, The Fencing of Wanderowna: A Tale of Squatting Life, published anonymously in the Australian Town and Country Journal from June to August 1873. In…
Early Australian rabbit-proof fences: Paling, slab and stub fences, modified dry stone walls, and wire netting
Fences were critical in the fight against rabbits in colonial Australia. Initially, domestic rabbits were farmed in pens or paddocks fenced with paling fences or walls. Wild-caught rabbits imported from England escaped and became serious pests from the 1850s. As their status changed from protected private property to a major pest, the functions of fences changed to fencing rabbits out. Legislation requiring or specifying rabbit-proof fences lagge…
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