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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... British authorities had in mind neither the New England religious model nor the southern and Caribbean entrepreneurial model . As a place of punishment Botany Bay was intended to be structured and hierarchical . It was not , however ...
... British authorities had in mind neither the New England religious model nor the southern and Caribbean entrepreneurial model . As a place of punishment Botany Bay was intended to be structured and hierarchical . It was not , however ...
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... British law but rather in defiance of colonial authority.20 In 1846 the British Government adopted a much more comprehensive policy with the passage through Parliament of the Imperial Waste Lands Act , which empowered the Queen in ...
... British law but rather in defiance of colonial authority.20 In 1846 the British Government adopted a much more comprehensive policy with the passage through Parliament of the Imperial Waste Lands Act , which empowered the Queen in ...
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... British Government encouraged these entrepreneurial proclivities in part no doubt because it believed that the establishment of viable economies in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land would reduce the cost of those colonies to the ...
... British Government encouraged these entrepreneurial proclivities in part no doubt because it believed that the establishment of viable economies in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land would reduce the cost of those colonies to the ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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