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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... agriculture . Even the British Government also now accepted that the land of New South Wales was more suited to pastoral than agricultural pursuits . In his influential 1823 report to the House of Commons on the state of trade and ...
... agriculture . Even the British Government also now accepted that the land of New South Wales was more suited to pastoral than agricultural pursuits . In his influential 1823 report to the House of Commons on the state of trade and ...
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... agriculture in the southwest section of the colony . The acreage under wheat remained small and agricultural activity in general consisted of ' scratching in favoured places ' . .44 In Queensland , the original Land Acts passed in 1860 ...
... agriculture in the southwest section of the colony . The acreage under wheat remained small and agricultural activity in general consisted of ' scratching in favoured places ' . .44 In Queensland , the original Land Acts passed in 1860 ...
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... agriculture.60 And yet , this trumpeting of both the success of closer settlement and the triumph of agriculture displayed two final ironies . First , because of the expansion of the pastoral industry into far western Queensland , the ...
... agriculture.60 And yet , this trumpeting of both the success of closer settlement and the triumph of agriculture displayed two final ironies . First , because of the expansion of the pastoral industry into far western Queensland , the ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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