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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... Chinese were ' useful and desirable ' colonists . Moreover , in the face of widespread rural condemnation of the hawkers , magistrates both in Sydney and in country towns acted to put ... Chinese market gardener . Many Chinese who came to 61.
... Chinese were ' useful and desirable ' colonists . Moreover , in the face of widespread rural condemnation of the hawkers , magistrates both in Sydney and in country towns acted to put ... Chinese market gardener . Many Chinese who came to 61.
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... Chinese workers . 195 But the squatters disagreed , arguing that the Chinese were not employed as shearers or indeed in any capacity ' where they would have to eat , work or sleep with white men ' . Rather , they were hired as gardeners ...
... Chinese workers . 195 But the squatters disagreed , arguing that the Chinese were not employed as shearers or indeed in any capacity ' where they would have to eat , work or sleep with white men ' . Rather , they were hired as gardeners ...
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... Chinese was strong among pastoral workers as well as townsfolk . Reports of stone - throwing assaults on Chinese were not uncommon . There were still riots too , like that in Bathurst in 1877 , when a mob of some five hundred Europeans ...
... Chinese was strong among pastoral workers as well as townsfolk . Reports of stone - throwing assaults on Chinese were not uncommon . There were still riots too , like that in Bathurst in 1877 , when a mob of some five hundred Europeans ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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