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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... European occupation expanded , so did the level of violence . When some 400 Europeans moved to the Hawkesbury in the ... European men inevitably provoked retaliation . In the conflicts that followed , the Aborigines picked off the ...
... European occupation expanded , so did the level of violence . When some 400 Europeans moved to the Hawkesbury in the ... European men inevitably provoked retaliation . In the conflicts that followed , the Aborigines picked off the ...
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... Europeans that the Chinese had established a tobacco monopoly.194 As racist attitudes hardened late in the century , European pastoral workers claimed that Chinese labour threatened their jobs . Indeed , some unionists insisted that ...
... Europeans that the Chinese had established a tobacco monopoly.194 As racist attitudes hardened late in the century , European pastoral workers claimed that Chinese labour threatened their jobs . Indeed , some unionists insisted that ...
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... European as well as Chinese customers . Europeans lamented that it was not uncommon for Chinese men to marry European women and take them to live in the enclaves , where they were allegedly exposed to vice . Some European women worked ...
... European as well as Chinese customers . Europeans lamented that it was not uncommon for Chinese men to marry European women and take them to live in the enclaves , where they were allegedly exposed to vice . Some European women worked ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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