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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... allowed to lease land adjacent to that which they had purchased at the rate of £ 2 per square mile per annum.35 ― In Victoria the Land Act of 1860 allowed anyone to buy up to 640 acres a year . Effectively it became a licence for ...
... allowed to lease land adjacent to that which they had purchased at the rate of £ 2 per square mile per annum.35 ― In Victoria the Land Act of 1860 allowed anyone to buy up to 640 acres a year . Effectively it became a licence for ...
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... allowed the operation of larger herds and the cultivation of more ground , and at less cost . The relevant acts placed strict limits on the amounts of land farmers were allowed to acquire under closer settlement schemes while at the ...
... allowed the operation of larger herds and the cultivation of more ground , and at less cost . The relevant acts placed strict limits on the amounts of land farmers were allowed to acquire under closer settlement schemes while at the ...
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... allowed the development of a coordinated and ( relatively ) punctual set of rail systems . It also facilitated their entry into the international market economy , for it allowed agriculturalists and pastoralists to monitor prices and ...
... allowed the development of a coordinated and ( relatively ) punctual set of rail systems . It also facilitated their entry into the international market economy , for it allowed agriculturalists and pastoralists to monitor prices and ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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