The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural AustraliaThe Vision Splendid seeks to restore rural Australia to a central place in Australian history by showing how it has shaped Australian culture. It focuses on the culture of work and leisure and the changing conceptions of the Bush in the Australian mind from the late eighteenth century onwards. It maps, for the first time, the development of a set of cultural values and institutions in nineteenth-century rural Australia. |
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When some 400 Europeans moved to the Hawkesbury in the 1790s , the
Aborigines complained that they had blocked access to the water and thus to
their traditional food supply . The Europeans in turn argued that the Aborigines
had stolen ...
When some 400 Europeans moved to the Hawkesbury in the 1790s , the
Aborigines complained that they had blocked access to the water and thus to
their traditional food supply . The Europeans in turn argued that the Aborigines
had stolen ...
Page 44
Europeans successfully prosecuted for attacks on Aborigines , such statements
seem , in retrospect , to be tinged with tragic irony . Sometimes too , in seeking to
explain to themselves why Aborigines committed acts of violence against them ...
Europeans successfully prosecuted for attacks on Aborigines , such statements
seem , in retrospect , to be tinged with tragic irony . Sometimes too , in seeking to
explain to themselves why Aborigines committed acts of violence against them ...
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underpinned by a recognition that the land they now occupied was usurped from
the Aborigines . The Archers , who first settled in southern Queensland before
taking up a run on the Fitzroy River , adopted benevolent attitudes towards the ...
underpinned by a recognition that the land they now occupied was usurped from
the Aborigines . The Archers , who first settled in southern Queensland before
taking up a run on the Fitzroy River , adopted benevolent attitudes towards the ...
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Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia |
| Author | Richard Waterhouse |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Curtin University Books, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 1920731059, 9781920731052 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Australia & New Zealand History / Social History Social Science / Sociology / Rural |
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