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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But the crossing , and the subsequent explorations by Mitchell to the south and
Oxley to the north , confirmed that the immediate future of the colony lay with
grazing rather than agriculture . Even the British Government also now accepted
that ...
But the crossing , and the subsequent explorations by Mitchell to the south and
Oxley to the north , confirmed that the immediate future of the colony lay with
grazing rather than agriculture . Even the British Government also now accepted
that ...
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43 Despite these policies , the squatters continued to occupy not only the prime
pastoral areas but also those deemed suitable for agriculture in the southwest
section of the colony . The acreage under wheat remained small and agricultural
...
43 Despite these policies , the squatters continued to occupy not only the prime
pastoral areas but also those deemed suitable for agriculture in the southwest
section of the colony . The acreage under wheat remained small and agricultural
...
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His was a story of progress , reflected in the process by which pastoralism had
given way to agriculture . 60 And yet , this trumpeting of both the success of
closer settlement and the triumph of agriculture displayed two final ironies .
His was a story of progress , reflected in the process by which pastoralism had
given way to agriculture . 60 And yet , this trumpeting of both the success of
closer settlement and the triumph of agriculture displayed two final ironies .
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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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