Mediterranean influences on horticultural and garden developments in South Australia between 1836 and 1938.

To define the extent of this research, this thesis reviews the first settlement of South Australia in 1836 and concludes with the Depression of 1938 having regard to its landscape development. This enables the documentation of Mediterranean influences from the earliest moments of European settlement in South Australia until the great financial crash that virtually suspended significant landscape commissions until after World War 2 when refugee migration from the Mediterranean region introduced a direct influence on society and culture here. Braudel’s view of history as wave-like is a used as an aid to understand the nature of the Mediterranean influence as transposed in South Australia. Extending his simile the waves have perhaps been less influence than the thin line of foam left in their wake. While individual and official enthusiasms for things Mediterranean waxed and waned over that century, the threads of the idea remained and appear now to be drawing together in a developing consciousness woven from past associations and developing events that seem almost inescapable. It is timely to consider the impact of Mediterranean influences on the development of ideas in South Australia as it clearly influenced this cultural and physical landscape and the body of ideas that determined these patterns, and may in future find a richer expression.

Author dc:creator

• Nottle, Trevor

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Jones, David
• Scriver, Peter

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/2440/48556

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.adelaide.edu.au:2440/48556