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In the 1880's, the well-connected young Englishman William B. Close and his three brothers, having bought thousands of acres of northwest Iowa prairie, conceived the idea of enticing sons of Britain's upper classes to pursue the life of the landed gentry on these fertile acres. "Yesterday a wilderness, today an empire": their bizarre experiment, which created a colony for people "of the better class" who were not in line to inherit land but whose fathers would set them up in farming, flourished in Le Mars, Iowa (and later in Pipestone, Minnesota), with over five hundred

British --- Agricultural colonies --- History --- Cowan, Walter. --- Cowan, James, --- Close Colony (Iowa) --- Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa) --- History.

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Greeks --- Agricultural colonies --- Farmhouses --- Pottery, Ancient --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Grecs --- Colonies agricoles --- Maisons rurales --- Céramique antique --- Metapontum (Extinct city) --- Metapontum (Ville ancienne) --- Agricultural colonies. --- Antiquities. --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Farmhouses. --- Greeks. --- Kilns --- Kilns. --- Italy --- Metaponto Region (Italy) --- Metapontum (Extinct city). --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Céramique antique

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"The Oldest Guard tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine. Though they grew into the backbone of lucrative citrus and wine industries of mandate Palestine and Israel, absorbed tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants, and became known as the "first wave" (First Aliyah) of Zionist settlement, these communities have been regarded-and disregarded-in the history of Zionism as sites of conservatism, lack of ideology, and resistance to Zionist Labor politics. Treating the "First Aliyah" as a symbol created and deployed only in retrospect, Liora Halperin offers a richly textured portrait of commemorative practices between the 1920s and the 1960s. Drawing connections to memory practices in other settler societies, she demonstrates how private agriculturalists and their advocates on the Zionist center and right celebrated and forged the "First Aliyah" past as a model of private ownership, political impartiality, and hierarchical relations with hired rural Palestinian labor. The Oldest Guard reveals the centrality of settlement to Zionist collective memory and the politics and erasures of Zionist settler "firstness.""--

Jews --- Agricultural colonies --- Zionism --- Colonization --- History --- History --- Palestine --- Israel --- History --- History --- 20th century. --- British Mandate. --- First Aliyah. --- Israel/Israelis. --- Jewish Agricultural Colonies / Moshavot. --- Memory / Collective Memory / Local Memory / Commemoration / anniversaries. --- Palestine/Palestinians. --- Private Enterprise / Private Capital / Capitalism / Bourgeoisie. --- Settler colonialism. --- Zionism / Zionist / Zionist movement.

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This social and political history of resettlement and state building in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands examines the aims of Han and Hui Chinese settlers sent to Qinghai province, their impact on the land and the population, and the role of the resettlement in the industrialization of the China.

Frontier and pioneer life --- Agricultural colonies --- Land settlement --- Borderlands --- Nation-building --- Industrialization --- History --- History --- History --- Government policy --- History --- History --- History --- Qinghai Sheng (China) --- China --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- Colonization --- History --- Relations --- Relations

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When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and contented families, appealing to returned servicepeople and their families hoping for a fresh start. Yet just 20 years after the inception of these soldier settlement schemes, fewer than half of the settlers remained on their properties. In this timely book, based on recently uncovered archives, Bruce Scates and Melanie Oppenheimer map out a deeply personal history of the soldiers' struggle to transition from Anzac to farmer and provider. At its foundation lie thousands of individual life stories shaped by imperfect repatriation policies. The Last Battle examines the environmental challenges, the difficulties presented by the physical and psychological damage many soldiers had sustained during the war, and the vital roles of women and children.

Australasia --- History. --- Agricultural colonies --- Veterans --- Combat veterans --- Ex-military personnel --- Ex-service men --- Military veterans --- Returning veterans --- Vets (Veterans) --- War veterans --- Armed Forces --- Retired military personnel --- Labor colonies --- Colonies --- Land settlement --- History --- Australia --- World War (1914-1918) --- 1914-1918 --- Australian --- World War I Period