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The Tung Oil Boom in Australasia: a Network Perspective
Author(s) -
ROCHE MICHAEL
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
geographical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.695
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-5871
pISSN - 1745-5863
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2009.00592.x
Subject(s) - collation , boom , perspective (graphical) , enthusiasm , context (archaeology) , salient , geography , empire , social science , economy , sociology , engineering , archaeology , artificial intelligence , economics , computer science , psychology , social psychology , environmental engineering , operating system
Ideas about networks are explored in the context of the interest within the British Empire and the United States of America in planting Tung Oil trees ( Aleurites fordii ) during the 1920s and 1930s. Closer attention is paid to the Australian and New Zealand experience and short‐lived enthusiasm for the search for seeds, the collation of information on growth rates, and the planting of Tung trees. The paper briefly distinguishes various types of network research in human geography and concludes by raising some questions about space and time in network approaches in the social sciences more generally.