Sailing ships persisted on emigrant voyages to Australia until the late nineteenth century and passage durations decreased by three weeks from the late 1840s to the mid-1880s. The shortening of voyages by sail has been linked to improvements in navigation and in sailing ship technology but...

Front Cover -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Part I Analysis -- Chapter 1 Getting Started -- Introduction -- Setting Objectives -- Looking beyond the Budget -- Capacity Constraints -- Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Day-to-Day Difficulties --...

Book Abstracts -- Contents -- 1: The Long Stagnation -- Western Australian Economic Growth and the Role of Co-operation -- The Imperial Inheritance and Pragmatic Co-operation -- The Organisation of This Book -- Bibliography -- Theses -- Secondary Sources -- 2: Visions of English Co-operation in...

The Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook is a resource of good practice information on land and natural resource management issues that will be of operational relevance to practitioners in the tropics and sub-tropics. The Sourcebook covers a comprehensive range of topics on the technical...