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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... Victoria in 1851. ' The country is ruined , no more water hole digging , no more fencing , ' wrote a rural resident who lived in the vicinity of Bathurst , in May 1851 , no more usual employment of a social pastural [ sic ] kind ...
... Victoria in 1851. ' The country is ruined , no more water hole digging , no more fencing , ' wrote a rural resident who lived in the vicinity of Bathurst , in May 1851 , no more usual employment of a social pastural [ sic ] kind ...
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... Victoria as a labourer , argued that the land in the colony was so exhausted that it would now be more difficult to ... Victoria and South Australia . Already by the early 1880s Victoria had developed a profitable export trade in wheat ...
... Victoria as a labourer , argued that the land in the colony was so exhausted that it would now be more difficult to ... Victoria and South Australia . Already by the early 1880s Victoria had developed a profitable export trade in wheat ...
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... Victoria had abandoned their holdings . And the cost of amelioration measures in Victoria and elsewhere was enormous . In 1929 losses on a national level were estimated at £ 23 million and by 1942 this figure had reached £ 45 million.17 ...
... Victoria had abandoned their holdings . And the cost of amelioration measures in Victoria and elsewhere was enormous . In 1929 losses on a national level were estimated at £ 23 million and by 1942 this figure had reached £ 45 million.17 ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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