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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Page 42
90 As the area of European occupation expanded , so did the level of violence .
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 ...
90 As the area of European occupation expanded , so did the level of violence .
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 ...
Page 63
of tobacco growing , and by early in the century there were anguished cries from
Europeans that the Chinese had established a tobacco monopoly . 194 As racist
attitudes hardened late in the century , European pastoral workers claimed that ...
of tobacco growing , and by early in the century there were anguished cries from
Europeans that the Chinese had established a tobacco monopoly . 194 As racist
attitudes hardened late in the century , European pastoral workers claimed that ...
Page 64
There were still riots too , like that in Bathurst in 1877 , when a mob of some five
hundred Europeans attacked Chinese premises . 203 But what also motivated
Europeans in their hatred of Chinese was a conviction that European and
Chinese ...
There were still riots too , like that in Bathurst in 1877 , when a mob of some five
hundred Europeans attacked Chinese premises . 203 But what also motivated
Europeans in their hatred of Chinese was a conviction that European and
Chinese ...
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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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