Peter Griggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 4250075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Griggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Griggs |
| SIGNATURE | GRIGGS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sharing Scarcity
A ustralians were the world's second highest consumers of tea per capita during the 1930s. After losing access to its main supplier, the D utch East Indies, with the outbreak of the P acific W ar, the C ommonwealth of A ustralia established a T ea C ontrol B oard and later a coupon‐based tea rationing scheme. Drawing upon archival sources, this article examines the regulation of the supply of tea in A ustralia until 1955. Rationing delivered redu…
Sovereign Sugar
[Extract] When asked to review Carol MacLennan's new book on the Hawaiian sugar industry, I eagerly agreed to the task. I was aware from my own work that many interactions occurred between the Australian and Hawaiian sugar industries, the latter being considered by the Australians to be quite innovative in certain aspects of sugar production. Indeed, as the author notes, the Hawaiian sugar industry 'during the twentieth century became the most ef…
Taking the Waters
In late 1907, Charles Fraser, the Victorian government entomologist, travelled to North Queensland. His observations of the flora and fauna in this part of Australia were later published in the Victorian Naturalist. However, this journey was not motivated entirely by his desire to study natural history. As a sufferer of ‘rhematic [sic] troubles’, he spent a few days soaking in the mineral-impregnated waters at Innot Hot Springs, a small inland vi…
Exploiting Marine Wildlife in Queensland
The historical exploitation of marine resources in Queensland has only been partially documented. In particular, the history of the commercial fishing of dugongs and marine turtles has received comparatively little scholarly attention. Since European settlement in Queensland, various human activities have exploited these resources. We present documentary and oral history evidence of the scale of those industries. Based on extensive archival and o…
Loved to Death
Recent scholarship has investigated the rate of deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia since European settlement and the severity of human impacts on that ecosystem. Yet in previous environmental histories of the Great Barrier Reef, the impacts of coral collecting have not been adequately documented. Using documentary and oral history sources, a reconstruction of historical coral collecting is possible; analysis of those sources ind…
Reconstructing reefs
Given recent concerns about the degradation of coral reef ecosystems world-wide, we investigated the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia using qualitative methods. In particular, we used archival and oral history sources to reconstruct changes in coral reefs, islands and marine wildlife species for the period 1860-1970 and we evaluated the potential of qualitative methods to inform marine environmental research. Here, we …
Deforestation and Sugar Cane Growing in Eastern Australia, 1860-1995
Deforestation associated with the cultivation of sugar cane in the coastal lands of Eastern Australia commenced in the 1860s. Beyond the initial large-scale clearing of the native vegetation to create arable land, the growing of sugar cane placed other demands upon the native forests. The vegetation was cleared to provide timber for buildings, railway sleepers, to supply the firewood for the sugar mill boilers and in some instances to supply the …
A natural part of life’
Apparent annual sugar consumption of sugar by Australians hovered around 55 kilograms per capita for the period 1900-1980. Such high levels of sugar consumption made Australians amongst the world's top ten consumers of sugar. In the early 1980s, apparent annual sugar consumption began falling, as sugar was portrayed by health professionals as 'white and deadly'. To combat's sugar's negative image, the Queensland Sugar Board, with support from CSR…
Mining the Reefs and Cays
Scholarly attention has recently focused on the extent of the deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef and several authors have attempted to place that decline into historical context. We present documentary and oral history evidence that the extent and severity of mining in the Great Barrier Reef has been hitherto neglected in environmental histories of the ecosystem. Extraction of phosphatic sandstone, guano, rock phosphate and coral from many i…
Soil Erosion, Scientists and the Development of Conservation Tillage Techniques in the Queensland Sugar Industry, 1935-1995
Soil erosion throughout Queensland's sugar cane producing lands emerged as a significant problem in the 1930s. Poor farming techniques such as leaving fallow land or fields with young crops bare during the wetter summer months and cultivating sloping land were blamed for this environmental problem. Drawing upon archival documents, government reports and published accounts of agricultural scientists, this paper aims to document how officers of the…
Improving Agricultural Practices
Sugarcane emerged by 1884 as the most favoured crop cultivated in the coastal lands of Eastern Australia between Cairns and Grafton. initially, Australian canegrowers invested as little labor and capital as possible. Contemporary commentators, however, were very critical of the agricultural practices adopted by the country's first canegrowers, noting a lack of careful cultivation and plowing, fertilizer use, drainage and paddock design. Various r…
Improving Agricultural Practices
Sugarcane emerged by 1884 as the most favored crop cultivated in the coastal lands of Eastern Australia between Cairns and Grafton. Initially, Australian canegrowers invested as little labor and capital as possible. Contemporary commentators, however, were very critical of the agricultural practices adopted by the country’s first canegrowers, noting a lack of careful cultivation and plowing, fertilizer use, drainage, and paddock design. Various r…
Changing Rural Spaces
The growing of tobacco was one of the most tightly regulated industries in Australia, until deregulation in 1995. Commonwealth regulations controlled the area cultivated with tobacco, the number of growers (ie quota holders) and marketing arrangements for tobacco leaf. This paper begins by outlining the nature and historical development of controls in the tobacco growing industry, and discusses how the Commonwealth government removed the industry…
The Decline of Competition
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the emergence of large single-product organisations whose expansion was stimulated by a desire to control a substantial part of a particular product market. An Australian example is the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd (CSR). By 1915, the company accounted for 90 per cent of refined sugar production in Australia. CSR had achieved this control over the Australian refined sugar market by usin…
Rainforests, Agriculture and Aboriginal Fire‐Regimes in Wet Tropical Queensland, Australia
This paper challenges the hypothesis that Aboriginal fire‐regimes in the coastal wet tropics of north Queensland have been responsible for significant rainforest decline in the past, and rejects the narrative that recent rainforest expansion is the result of the disappearance of Aboriginal people and their fire practices from the area. Mapping of vegetation in the Mossman district in c. 1890 from surveyors’ plans, and in 1945 and 1991 from aerial…
Sugar Plantations in Queensland, 1864–1912
Griggs discusses the history of sugar plantations in Queensland Australia during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The main concern of historiography on Queensland's sugar plantations has been the estates' laborers, who were mostly indentured Melanesians
In search of community
In search of community
Deforestation and Sugar Cane Growing in Eastern Australia, 1860-1995
Deforestation associated with the cultivation of sugar cane in the coastal lands of Eastern Australia commenced in the 1860s. Beyond the initial large-scale clearing of the native vegetation to create arable land, the growing of sugar cane placed other demands upon the native forests. The vegetation was cleared to provide timber for buildings, railway sleepers, to supply the firewood for the sugar mill boilers and in some instances to supply the …
Mining the Reefs and Cays
Scholarly attention has recently focused on the extent of the deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef and several authors have attempted to place that decline into historical context. We present documentary and oral history evidence that the extent and severity of mining in the Great Barrier Reef has been hitherto neglected in environmental histories of the ecosystem. Extraction of phosphatic sandstone, guano, rock phosphate and coral from many i…
A natural part of life’
Apparent annual sugar consumption of sugar by Australians hovered around 55 kilograms per capita for the period 1900-1980. Such high levels of sugar consumption made Australians amongst the world's top ten consumers of sugar. In the early 1980s, apparent annual sugar consumption began falling, as sugar was portrayed by health professionals as 'white and deadly'. To combat's sugar's negative image, the Queensland Sugar Board, with support from CSR…
Rainforests, Agriculture and Aboriginal Fire‐Regimes in Wet Tropical Queensland, Australia
This paper challenges the hypothesis that Aboriginal fire‐regimes in the coastal wet tropics of north Queensland have been responsible for significant rainforest decline in the past, and rejects the narrative that recent rainforest expansion is the result of the disappearance of Aboriginal people and their fire practices from the area. Mapping of vegetation in the Mossman district in c. 1890 from surveyors’ plans, and in 1945 and 1991 from aerial…
Sugar Plantations in Queensland, 1864–1912
Griggs discusses the history of sugar plantations in Queensland Australia during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The main concern of historiography on Queensland's sugar plantations has been the estates' laborers, who were mostly indentured Melanesians
Soil Erosion, Scientists and the Development of Conservation Tillage Techniques in the Queensland Sugar Industry, 1935-1995
Soil erosion throughout Queensland's sugar cane producing lands emerged as a significant problem in the 1930s. Poor farming techniques such as leaving fallow land or fields with young crops bare during the wetter summer months and cultivating sloping land were blamed for this environmental problem. Drawing upon archival documents, government reports and published accounts of agricultural scientists, this paper aims to document how officers of the…
Changing Rural Spaces
The growing of tobacco was one of the most tightly regulated industries in Australia, until deregulation in 1995. Commonwealth regulations controlled the area cultivated with tobacco, the number of growers (ie quota holders) and marketing arrangements for tobacco leaf. This paper begins by outlining the nature and historical development of controls in the tobacco growing industry, and discusses how the Commonwealth government removed the industry…
Loved to Death
Recent scholarship has investigated the rate of deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia since European settlement and the severity of human impacts on that ecosystem. Yet in previous environmental histories of the Great Barrier Reef, the impacts of coral collecting have not been adequately documented. Using documentary and oral history sources, a reconstruction of historical coral collecting is possible; analysis of those sources ind…
In search of community
Rainforests, Agriculture and Aboriginal Fire‐Regimes in Wet Tropical Queensland, Australia
This paper challenges the hypothesis that Aboriginal fire‐regimes in the coastal wet tropics of north Queensland have been responsible for significant rainforest decline in the past, and rejects the narrative that recent rainforest expansion is the result of the disappearance of Aboriginal people and their fire practices from the area. Mapping of vegetation in the Mossman district in c. 1890 from surveyors’ plans, and in 1945 and 1991 from aerial…
Sugar Plantations in Queensland, 1864–1912
Griggs discusses the history of sugar plantations in Queensland Australia during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The main concern of historiography on Queensland's sugar plantations has been the estates' laborers, who were mostly indentured Melanesians
The Decline of Competition
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the emergence of large single-product organisations whose expansion was stimulated by a desire to control a substantial part of a particular product market. An Australian example is the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd (CSR). By 1915, the company accounted for 90 per cent of refined sugar production in Australia. CSR had achieved this control over the Australian refined sugar market by usin…
Changing Rural Spaces
The growing of tobacco was one of the most tightly regulated industries in Australia, until deregulation in 1995. Commonwealth regulations controlled the area cultivated with tobacco, the number of growers (ie quota holders) and marketing arrangements for tobacco leaf. This paper begins by outlining the nature and historical development of controls in the tobacco growing industry, and discusses how the Commonwealth government removed the industry…
Improving Agricultural Practices
Sugarcane emerged by 1884 as the most favoured crop cultivated in the coastal lands of Eastern Australia between Cairns and Grafton. initially, Australian canegrowers invested as little labor and capital as possible. Contemporary commentators, however, were very critical of the agricultural practices adopted by the country's first canegrowers, noting a lack of careful cultivation and plowing, fertilizer use, drainage and paddock design. Various r…
Improving Agricultural Practices
Sugarcane emerged by 1884 as the most favored crop cultivated in the coastal lands of Eastern Australia between Cairns and Grafton. Initially, Australian canegrowers invested as little labor and capital as possible. Contemporary commentators, however, were very critical of the agricultural practices adopted by the country’s first canegrowers, noting a lack of careful cultivation and plowing, fertilizer use, drainage, and paddock design. Various r…
A natural part of life’
Apparent annual sugar consumption of sugar by Australians hovered around 55 kilograms per capita for the period 1900-1980. Such high levels of sugar consumption made Australians amongst the world's top ten consumers of sugar. In the early 1980s, apparent annual sugar consumption began falling, as sugar was portrayed by health professionals as 'white and deadly'. To combat's sugar's negative image, the Queensland Sugar Board, with support from CSR…
Mining the Reefs and Cays
Scholarly attention has recently focused on the extent of the deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef and several authors have attempted to place that decline into historical context. We present documentary and oral history evidence that the extent and severity of mining in the Great Barrier Reef has been hitherto neglected in environmental histories of the ecosystem. Extraction of phosphatic sandstone, guano, rock phosphate and coral from many i…
Soil Erosion, Scientists and the Development of Conservation Tillage Techniques in the Queensland Sugar Industry, 1935-1995
Soil erosion throughout Queensland's sugar cane producing lands emerged as a significant problem in the 1930s. Poor farming techniques such as leaving fallow land or fields with young crops bare during the wetter summer months and cultivating sloping land were blamed for this environmental problem. Drawing upon archival documents, government reports and published accounts of agricultural scientists, this paper aims to document how officers of the…
Deforestation and Sugar Cane Growing in Eastern Australia, 1860-1995
Deforestation associated with the cultivation of sugar cane in the coastal lands of Eastern Australia commenced in the 1860s. Beyond the initial large-scale clearing of the native vegetation to create arable land, the growing of sugar cane placed other demands upon the native forests. The vegetation was cleared to provide timber for buildings, railway sleepers, to supply the firewood for the sugar mill boilers and in some instances to supply the …
Exploiting Marine Wildlife in Queensland
The historical exploitation of marine resources in Queensland has only been partially documented. In particular, the history of the commercial fishing of dugongs and marine turtles has received comparatively little scholarly attention. Since European settlement in Queensland, various human activities have exploited these resources. We present documentary and oral history evidence of the scale of those industries. Based on extensive archival and o…
Loved to Death
Recent scholarship has investigated the rate of deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia since European settlement and the severity of human impacts on that ecosystem. Yet in previous environmental histories of the Great Barrier Reef, the impacts of coral collecting have not been adequately documented. Using documentary and oral history sources, a reconstruction of historical coral collecting is possible; analysis of those sources ind…
Reconstructing reefs
Given recent concerns about the degradation of coral reef ecosystems world-wide, we investigated the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia using qualitative methods. In particular, we used archival and oral history sources to reconstruct changes in coral reefs, islands and marine wildlife species for the period 1860-1970 and we evaluated the potential of qualitative methods to inform marine environmental research. Here, we …
Taking the Waters
In late 1907, Charles Fraser, the Victorian government entomologist, travelled to North Queensland. His observations of the flora and fauna in this part of Australia were later published in the Victorian Naturalist. However, this journey was not motivated entirely by his desire to study natural history. As a sufferer of ‘rhematic [sic] troubles’, he spent a few days soaking in the mineral-impregnated waters at Innot Hot Springs, a small inland vi…
Sharing Scarcity
A ustralians were the world's second highest consumers of tea per capita during the 1930s. After losing access to its main supplier, the D utch East Indies, with the outbreak of the P acific W ar, the C ommonwealth of A ustralia established a T ea C ontrol B oard and later a coupon‐based tea rationing scheme. Drawing upon archival sources, this article examines the regulation of the supply of tea in A ustralia until 1955. Rationing delivered redu…
Sovereign Sugar
[Extract] When asked to review Carol MacLennan's new book on the Hawaiian sugar industry, I eagerly agreed to the task. I was aware from my own work that many interactions occurred between the Australian and Hawaiian sugar industries, the latter being considered by the Australians to be quite innovative in certain aspects of sugar production. Indeed, as the author notes, the Hawaiian sugar industry 'during the twentieth century became the most ef…
Geography (12 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Agricultural economics (6 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Business (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Agroforestry (5 works)