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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... areas the squatters had successfully prevented the creation of small - scale holdings . But the report revealed problems even in those areas where selection on a large scale had taken place . The limits on the size of the holdings meant ...
... areas the squatters had successfully prevented the creation of small - scale holdings . But the report revealed problems even in those areas where selection on a large scale had taken place . The limits on the size of the holdings meant ...
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... areas in New South Wales , Victoria and Queensland at least , they served instead to exacerbate a spirit of ruthless competition and to encourage social and economic instability . In response to these and other criticisms the NSW ...
... areas in New South Wales , Victoria and Queensland at least , they served instead to exacerbate a spirit of ruthless competition and to encourage social and economic instability . In response to these and other criticisms the NSW ...
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... areas in New South Wales the clergy made attempts to hold services for convicts . 184 But in most rural areas Catholics and Protestants were born , married and buried without the benefit of a service spoken by an ordained minister . 185 ...
... areas in New South Wales the clergy made attempts to hold services for convicts . 184 But in most rural areas Catholics and Protestants were born , married and buried without the benefit of a service spoken by an ordained minister . 185 ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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