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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... Darling Downs and the land along the Darling River . Some came with capital ; others worked as pastoral employees until they amassed the funds to purchase small flocks . Contemporaries considered them adventurous and hard - working ...
... Darling Downs and the land along the Darling River . Some came with capital ; others worked as pastoral employees until they amassed the funds to purchase small flocks . Contemporaries considered them adventurous and hard - working ...
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... Darling , 99–100 . 17 Ada Cambridge , Thirty Years in Australia , 31–2 ; Buley , 13–14 ; Patricia McCaughey , Samuel McCaughey , A Biography , 58 . 18 Lancelott , vol . 1 , 138–9 . 19 ATCJ , 26 November 1892 ; Alan Powell , Far Country ...
... Darling , 99–100 . 17 Ada Cambridge , Thirty Years in Australia , 31–2 ; Buley , 13–14 ; Patricia McCaughey , Samuel McCaughey , A Biography , 58 . 18 Lancelott , vol . 1 , 138–9 . 19 ATCJ , 26 November 1892 ; Alan Powell , Far Country ...
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... Darling , 189–90 ; Ward , The Australian Legend , passim . 64 Crombie , 68–9 ; ATCJ , 7 August 1886 ; Bean , The Dreadnought ' of the Darling , 156–7 . 65 ATCJ , 25 May 1901 , 30 May 1906 ; Bean , On the Wool Track , 56–7 ; APR , 12 ...
... Darling , 189–90 ; Ward , The Australian Legend , passim . 64 Crombie , 68–9 ; ATCJ , 7 August 1886 ; Bean , The Dreadnought ' of the Darling , 156–7 . 65 ATCJ , 25 May 1901 , 30 May 1906 ; Bean , On the Wool Track , 56–7 ; APR , 12 ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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