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Journal articles on the topic "Mountain plants Victoria"
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McPherson, Stewart. "Nepenthes palawanensis: Another new species of giant pitcher plant from the Philippines." Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39, no. 3 (September 1, 2010): 89–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.55360/cpn393.sm928.
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Following the discovery of Nepenthes attenboroughii on Mount Victoria, I returned to Palawan in January 2010 to explore another mountain called Sultan Peak with a Filipino botanist friend. As mentioned in my article on Nepenthes attenboroughii one year ago, the Philippine island of Palawan is of extreme botanical interest because it is a hotspot of diversity located close to the great island of Borneo, but it has remained relatively little explored, especially in terms of carnivorous plants.
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McLoughlin, S., and J. A. Long. "New records of Devonian plants from southern Victoria Land, Antarctica." Geological Magazine 131, no. 1 (January 1994): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800010517.
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AbstractAn assemblage of fossil plants is here recorded from the Middle Devonian Beacon Heights Orthoquartzite and overlying Aztec Siltstone (Taylor Group), of the Cook Mountains and Skelton Névé regions, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. The Beacon Heights Orthoquartzite exposed in the southern Cook Mountains yielded specimens of the lycopods Haplostigma lineare, Malanzania sp., and Archaeosigillaria sp. cf. A. caespitosa. The Aztec Siltstone flora contains Praeramunculus alternatiramus and H. lineare.
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Grierson, PF, MA Adams, and PM Attiwill. "Estimates of Carbon Storage in the Aboveground Biomass of Victorias Forests." Australian Journal of Botany 40, no. 5 (1992): 631. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/bt9920631.
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The pool of carbon in the world's forests is of similar magnitude to that in the atmosphere, yet little attention has been given to improving measures of carbon in terrestrial biomass. Much of the critical data for forest biomass on which models of global carbon cycling rely is, in fact, based on the accurate sampling of less than 100 ha of forest. Uncertainties in biomass estimation at the local and regional level may be responsible for much of the current speculation as to unidentified sinks for carbon. We have used a forest inventory (i.e. records of forest volume obtained for harvesting purposes) approach to quantify the biomass of forests in Victoria, Australia. Forests were analysed by type, age and region. Regression equations were developed for the accumulation of biomass with age across all productivity classes for each forest type. The mean carbon density for above-ground components of Victorian native forests is 157 tonnes ha-1 (t ha-1), although forest types range in mean carbon density from 250 to 18 t ha-1. Pinus radiata D. Don plantations in Victoria have a mean carbon density of 91 t ha-1 in the above-ground components. Total carbon stored in above-ground biomass is estimated to be 1.2 X 109 t. Rates of carbon fixation vary with forest age, species and site. Mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell.) forests fix around 9 t of carbon ha-1 annually during the first few years of growth, decreasing to 6 t ha-1 by age 10. Rates of carbon accumulation by other forests are generally less than this and, at the lower end of the range, box-ironbark forests, mallee and woodlands accumulate between 0.5 and 2 t ha-1 year-1. P. radiata plantations in Victoria will accumulate around 7 t carbon ha-1 year-1.
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Hyndman, Roy. "Edward Irving FRSC CM. 27 May 1927 — 25 February 2014." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 61 (January 2015): 183–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2015.0004.
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Dr Edward (Ted) Irving, one of Canada's most respected geoscientists, died on 25 February 2014 in Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada, aged 86 years, leaving his wife, Sheila, children Katie, Susan, Martin and George, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. After his early work as a student at Cambridge, England, he moved first to Australia and then to Canada. Over more than 60 years his scientific career was devoted mainly to the use of magnetic remanence recorded in ancient rocks to address fundamental geological questions. This seemingly simple technology proved to have remarkably many applications. Through his measurements and analyses of rock samples that recorded the magnetic field at the time of their formation, Ted was in the forefront of demonstrating that continental drift was real, at a time when the theory was out of favour. His meticulous work on rocks from many areas of the world was instrumental in showing how continents have been constantly moving, breaking up and colliding to make new larger continents and then breaking up again. He published more than 200 articles in international scientific journals. His reference text Paleomagnetism and its applications to geological and geophysical problems is still widely used. Applying remanent magnetism to study the motion of continents, and to other important geological problems, required careful analyses and interpretations. These included showing that the secular change in the Earth's magnetic field direction averaged over time aligns with its rotation pole, that the Earth's magnetic field has reversed its polarity at irregular intervals of a few million years, and that overprinting by re-magnetizations of rocks at different geological times can be separated by special laboratory techniques. Other contributions included important research in ancient climates, continental glaciations, the origin of mountain systems, and the relative displacements of parts of continents (terranes), especially the inferred large northward movement of parts of western North America, a conclusion that remains controversial. His most important results depended critically on his developing and using the best field sampling methods, laboratory instrumentation and procedures, and methods of data analysis. During his career he established world-class palaeomagnetic laboratories in Cambridge and Canberra, and in Ottawa and Victoria in Canada. Ted Irving had broad interests and knowledge. He was a serious gardener and horticulturalist and wrote several scholarly articles on plants, especially on the biogeography of rhododendrons and magnolias. He received numerous awards and medals and wide recognition, including election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. He also received many awards and medals from professional geological societies. Ted Irving received honorary doctorates from three universities, and the Order of Canada, in recognition of his outstanding scientific contributions.
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Carpenter, Raymond J., Robert S. Hill, David R. Greenwood, Alan D. Partridge, and Meredith A. Banks. "No snow in the mountains: Early Eocene plant fossils from Hotham Heights, Victoria, Australia." Australian Journal of Botany 52, no. 6 (2004): 685. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/bt04032.
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An Early Eocene plant assemblage from near the summit of Mt Hotham, Victoria, is described, using a combination of macro- and microfossils, especially cuticles. This is important since no other Australian macrofossil sites from this time, when environmental conditions are believed to have been the warmest of the Cenozoic, have been described in detail. The nature of the flora and vegetation supports geological evidence that the site was upland (approximately 800 m above sea level) at this time, with climatic conditions similar to those now experienced in regions such as the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland and mid-montane Papua New Guinea. The vegetation was probably a form of rainforest dominated by mesotherm elements, with abundant ferns including Gleicheniaceae and the tree ferns Cnemidaria, Cyathea and Dicksonia. Gymnosperms included Araucariaceae (Agathis) and Podocarpaceae (at least Acmopyle and Dacrydium). Angiosperms were diverse in Lauraceae (at least nine species including probably Cryptocarya, Endiandra and Litsea) and Proteaceae (at least nine species including probably Musgravea and Darlingia). Other angiosperms included Cunoniaceae, Gymnostoma (Casuarinaceae), Diospyros-like Ebenaceae, and the vine Cissocarpus (Vitaceae). Nothofagus was rare or absent from the Mt Hotham region at this time, as no macrofossil evidence was found, and pollen percentages were very low.
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Colesie, Claudia, Maxime Gommeaux, T. G. Allan Green, and Burkhard Büdel. "Biological soil crusts in continental Antarctica: Garwood Valley, southern Victoria Land, and Diamond Hill, Darwin Mountains region." Antarctic Science 26, no. 2 (May 23, 2013): 115–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102013000291.
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AbstractBiological soil crusts are associations of lichens, mosses, algae, cyanobacteria, microfungi and bacteria in different proportions forming a thin veneer within the top centimetres of soil surfaces. They occur in all biomes, but particularly in arid and semi-arid regions, even in the most extreme climates. They carry out crucial ecosystem functions, such as soil stabilization, influencing water and nutrient cycles, and contribute to the formation of microniches for heterotrophic life. In continental Antarctica especially, these roles are essential because no higher plants provide such ecosystem services. We provide a detailed description of biological soil crusts from Garwood Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys region (78°S) and Diamond Hill (80°S) in the Darwin Mountains region. The coverage was low at 3.3% and 0.8% of the soil surface. At Garwood Valley the crusts were composed of green algal lichens, cyanobacteria, several species of green algae and the mossHennediella heimii(Hedw.) R.H. Zander. Diamond Hill crusts appear to be unique in not having any species of cyanobacteria. Major parts are embedded in the soil, and their thickness correlates with higher chlorophyll contents, higher soil organic carbon and nitrogen, which are fundamental components of this species poor cold desert zone.
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Walter, DE. "Leaf Surface-Structure and the Distribution of Phytoseius Mites (Acarina, Phytoseiidae) in South-Eastern Australian Forests." Australian Journal of Zoology 40, no. 6 (1992): 593. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo9920593.
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Habitat structure, at a scale at which we do not normally perceive it, can be an important determinant of species diversity and distribution in arboreal mites. Phytoseiid mites (1552 individuals) collected from the leaves of 75 species of woody plants from 55 forest sites between Noosa Head, Queensland and the Hartz Mountains, Tasmania were found to represent 28 species in four genera: Phytoseius, Typhlodromus, Amblyseius and Iphiseius. About half (38) of the plant species from which phytoseiid mites were collected had leaves with well-developed coverings of hairs on their abaxial surfaces, especially along the veins. Species in the genus Phytoseius were the most abundant mites (46.4% of total), and they were almost entirely restricted to leaves with well-developed tomenta (714 of 720 Phytoseius mites collected from 34 of 38 plant species with hairy leaves). In a test of these observations at three sites in Victoria, phytoseiid mites in general were more abundant on leaves with well-developed tomenta, but only Phytoseius mites were restricted to hairy leaves.
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PELSER, PIETER B., KIM JOHN S. DOBLE, PETER O’BYRNE, PAUL ORMEROD, and JULIE F. BARCELONA. "Gastrodia cajanoae (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae: Gastrodieae), a new species from the Philippines." Phytotaxa 266, no. 1 (June 17, 2016): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.266.1.9.
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Gastrodia Brown (1810: 330) is a holomycotrophic terrestrial orchid genus of c. 65 species with an Old World distribution and centre of diversity in Southeast Asia (Cribb et al. 2010, Huang et al. 2015, Ong 2015). In the Philippines, two species are thus far known: G. javanica (Blume, 1825: 421) Lindley (1840: 384) and G. verrucosa Blume (1856: 175). Both have a widespread distribution in northern Malesia and southern East Asia. During fieldwork for the Co’s Digital Flora of the Philippine project (Pelser et al. 2011 onwards) in early December 2012, Gastrodia plants were photographed that belong to a third Philippine species. These plants were observed in three areas on the island of Mindanao: Mt. Apo Natural Park (North Cotabato Prov.) and two sites in Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park (Lantapan and Baungon municipalities; Bukidnon Prov.). In December 2015, plants belonging to the same species were collected in Northern Negros Natural Park (Victorias City, Negros Occidental Prov., Negros) and in March 2016 plants were photographed in Barlig (Mountain Prov., Luzon). Morphological studies showed that this species is distinct from all Gastrodia species except G. spathulata (Carr, 1935: 180) Wood (in Wood et al. 2011: 355) in having petals that are considerably shorter than the calyx tube and separate from it about half way along the inner surface of the tube. It differs from G. spathulata in the longer adnation of the petals to the calyx tube, the shape of the petals and their lack of indumentum, and characters of the lip ridges. Assuming that these morphological differences are an indication of reproductive isolation, we name and describe these plants here as a new species under a biological species concept (Mayr 2000). This new addition brings the total number of Philippine Gastrodia species to three.
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Benyon, Richard, Shane Haydon, Rob Vertessy, Tom Hatton, George Kuczera, Paul Feikema, and Patrick Lane. "Comment on Wood et al. 2008, 'Impacts of fire on forest age and runoff in mountain ash forests'." Functional Plant Biology 37, no. 12 (2010): 1187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/fp10141.
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Wood et al. (2008; FPB 35) concluded their measurements of evapotranspiration (ET) in Eucalyptus regnans F.Muell. forest at Wallaby Creek, Victoria showed that ET differs only slightly between regrowth and oldgrowth, contrary to the findings of previous research. We assert that the conclusions of Wood et al. are invalid and argue that Wood et al. substantially overestimated annual transpiration and rainfall. Monthly whole-forest ET measured by Wood et al. using eddy covariance in a 296-year-old stand sum to ~700 mm year–1; consistent with rainfall of 721 mm year–1 recorded nearby by the Bureau of Meteorology. However, the Wood et al. conclusions were based on 1077 mm annual transpiration at this site, which appears to be estimated from a few months of heat pulse velocity measurements. Transpiration alone cannot be 54% higher than whole-forest ET because the latter includes transpiration, rainfall interception and evaporation from the forest floor. We believe Wood et al. made errors in scaling heat pulse velocities to whole-stand annual transpiration. Their rainfall of 1175 mm year–1 averages 62% higher than at three Bureau of Meteorology and Melbourne Water sites nearby. The paper also contains inaccuracies in reporting of the literature and numerous other errors.
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Renner, Matthew A. M., Russell L. Barrett, Steve Clarke, James A. R. Clugston, Trevor C. Wilson, and Peter H. Weston. "Morphological and molecular evidence refute a broad circumscription for." Australian Systematic Botany 35, no. 3 (July 14, 2022): 127–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb21030.
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Morphological and single-nucleotide polymorphism data support splitting Pultenaea glabra Benth. into eight species, including one in Victoria, and seven in eastern and northern New South Wales. Six species are newly described, five of which are, like P. glabra, narrow-range endemics within the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area and adjacent sandstone landforms of the Great Dividing Range. The recognition of six new species from what was broadly P. glabra has implications for conservation management, including for P. glabra itself, which has a smaller distribution and more precise habitat requirements than previously thought. One of the new species, P. percussa, is known by a single 1971 gathering only. The occurrence of several narrow-range Blue Mountains endemic Pultenaea species may be explained by the combination of edaphic diversity and topographic complexity, which could act in concert to promote divergences among small, allopatric populations. Hybrids between P. glabra and P. flexilis Sm. are documented for the first time; however, limited evidence for introgression between the two species was observed. The following new taxa are described: Pultenaea aculeata M.A.M.Renner, P.H.Weston & S.Clarke, Pultenaea percussa M.A.M.Renner & P.H.Weston, Pultenaea furcata M.A.M.Renner & R.L.Barrett, Pultenaea mutabilis M.A.M.Renner & P.H.Weston, Pultenaea mutabilis var. angusta M.A.M.Renner, P.H.Weston, & S.Clarke, Pultenaea praecipua M.A.M.Renner & P.H.Weston, Pultenaea praecipua subsp. temperata M.A.M.Renner & R.L.Barrett, and Pultenaea tenebrosa M.A.M.Renner, P.H.Weston & S.Clarke. Lectotypes are designated for Pultenaea villosa var. glabrescens Benth. and Pultenaea weindorferi Reader.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mountain plants Victoria"
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Kelly, Noelene J. "Shoulder to the wind : a lyrical evocation of the Bogong High Plains." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/21720/.
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This thesis comes in two parts. In the first instance it is a journey into the space and light, the wetlands and the wildflowers, the rocks and creatures and winds of the high plateau region of Australia’s south-east corner. Within this elongated spine of high country rise the Bogong High Plains, a series of peaks and sub-alpine grasslands bordered by forests of snow gum and alpine ash. These High Plains are the subject of this thesis. What you will find here is creative in form. It is composed of a series of personal and place-based essays in the nature writing tradition. While these lyrical essays arise from my own extensive engagement with the High Plains, they attempt an ecological perspective; they endeavour to write the High Plains over time and from multiple viewpoints, including those of Aboriginal custodians and geological scientists, cattlemen and ecologists, as well as my own phenomenal experience. Mostly, they are a response—protective, celebratory, artful, tinctured at times with grief and loss and, perhaps more frequently, with amazement—to a rare and increasingly threatened place. These creative essays are accompanied by an exegetical reflection that contextualises the creative work and examines a range of issues and discourses which either arose from or impinged upon the work as it took shape.
Books on the topic "Mountain plants Victoria"
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Murphy, John P. Plants of the Victorian high country. Collingwood, Vic: CSIRO Publishing, 2012.
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Mayfield, Enid. Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 1. CSIRO Publishing, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643098053.
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The Otway region of Victoria, with its temperate rainforests, mountain ash forests, heathlands, plains and coastal dunes, has an extraordinarily rich and diverse flora. The first volume of Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges covers the orchids, irises, lilies, grass-trees, mat-rushes and other petaloid monocotyledonous plants.
Enid Mayfield's exquisite colour illustrations of more than 200 species reveal tiny botanical details which enable the untrained botanist to identify each species with ease. The section on orchids describes and illustrates more than 130 species, highlighting their fascinating adaptations for attracting specific pollinating insects.
The clear text and illustrations frequently draw attention to the relationship of plants to the broader environment, the impact of fire, the role of pollinators and the importance of fungi.
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Peel, Bill. Rainforest Restoration Manual for South-Eastern Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643101319.
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Rainforest Restoration Manual for South-Eastern Australia is the definitive guide to the recovery and restoration of Subtropical, Warm Temperate, Cool Temperate, Gallery, Dry, Dry Gully and Littoral Rainforests from south-eastern Queensland to
Tasmania. All of these rainforest types were inherently rare prior to settlement, and today with depletion, feral animals, weeds and climate change, all are threatened – with many listed under state and federal legislation.
The manual presents detailed restoration methods in 10 easy-to-follow steps, documenting the research and trials undertaken during rainforest restoration over more than two decades. These experiments and their results will empower readers to uncover answers to many of the problems they could encounter. The manual is supported by a CD that provides important background information, with 32 appendices, a propagation manual for the region's 735 rainforest plants, an illustrated glossary and resources for teachers. Species lists and specific planting guides are provided for the 57 rainforest floristic communities that occur from the
coast to the mountains between Durras Mountain in New South Wales and the Otways in Victoria.
Extensively illustrated with colour photographs, this book will empower you or your group to be able to restore, manage, protect and conserve the magnificent rainforests that are in your care. The general principles and techniques described will meet the needs of students and teachers, novices, experienced practitioners, community groups and agencies alike.
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Wilkie, Benjamin. Gariwerd. CSIRO Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486307692.
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People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations. They have both witnessed and caused vast environmental transformations in and around the ranges. Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians explores the geological and ecological significance of the mountains and combines research from across disciplines to tell the story of how humans and the environment have interacted, and how the ways people have thought about the environments of the ranges have changed through time.
In this new account, historian Benjamin Wilkie examines how Djab wurrung and Jardwadjali people and their ancestors lived in and around the mountains, how they managed the land and natural resources, and what kinds of archaeological evidence they have left behind over the past 20 000 years. He explores the history of European colonisation in the area from the middle of the 19th century and considers the effects of this on both the first people of Gariwerd and the environments of the ranges and their surrounding plains in western Victoria. The book covers the rise of science, industry and tourism in the mountains, and traces the eventual declaration of the Grampians National Park in 1984. Finally, it examines more recent debates about the past, present and future of the park, including over its significant Indigenous history and heritage.
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Mayfield, Enid. Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 2. CSIRO Publishing, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643098077.
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This visually superb and informative field guide is the second volume of Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges, and covers more than 480 species of Daisies, Heaths, Peas, Saltbushes, Sundews, Wattles and other shrubby and herbaceous Dicotyledons. The illustrated family key is unique and covers 75 families and over 200 genera. Each species is illustrated and labels provide a clear key to identification for botanists and amateurs alike.
The Otway region of Victoria, with its temperate rainforests, mountain ash forests, heathlands, plains and coastal dunes, has an extraordinarily rich and diverse flora.
Book chapters on the topic "Mountain plants Victoria"
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Bainbridge, William. "Picturesque Mountains." In Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in the Dolomite Mountains. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462987616_ch06.
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This chapter focuses on how the geomorphology of the Dolomites, characterized by picturesque involutions and fantastic drifting, elevated them to a pictorial extravaganza on the English art market. The ‘Dolomite picturesque’ was the result of a particular response to landscape initially inscribed onto the English landscape in places like the Lake District. This chapter explores the way in which British tourists imposed on the Dolomite landscape a picturesque signature crafted at home by the poetry of Wordsworth, the paintbrush of Turner, and the spade of Humphrey Repton. The chief exemplar and source for explaining this interchange of the picturesque aesthetic and its practice is the artist Elijah Walton who exploited the so-called ‘Turnerian mystery’ to render the Dolomites iconic for the British art market.
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Irons, Peter. "“Intimate Social Contact with Negro Men”." In White Men's Law, 135–54. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190914943.003.0008.
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This chapter covers the New Deal decade of the 1930s and the Greatest War decade of the 1940s. After the stock market crash in October 1929, the mounting toll of unemployment, industrial near-collapse, and crop failures overwhelmed the feeble recovery efforts of President Herbert Hoover’s administration and brought Franklin D. Roosevelt to the White House with ambitious plans for a New Deal. Black leaders were both hopeful and cautious about the impact of recovery programs. Under the leadership of Mary McCloud Bethune, a noted Black educator and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, a “Black Cabinet” succeeded in obtaining a fair share of jobs and relief for poor Blacks, but at the price of segregation in Jim Crow states. The chapter also recounts the beginnings of the legal campaign against school segregation, led by Thurgood Marshall, legal director of the NAACP. His first court victories, in Maryland and Missouri, were interrupted by World War II, during which labor leader A. Philip Randolph won protection for Blacks in war industries. But the war’s end unleashed a new wave of attacks on Blacks; the blinding of a Black veteran in uniform, Isaac Woodard, by a White South Carolina sheriff so upset President Harry Truman that he ordered integration of the armed forces. Meanwhile, Marshall won three more graduate and law school cases in Oklahoma and Texas, further undermining the “separate but equal” doctrine of the Plessy case.