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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Although the employers ' advocate argued that most Aborigines in the Territory
did not work at the rate and level of European employees , the commission
accepted the principle of equal wages . It also deferred implementation until
December ...
Although the employers ' advocate argued that most Aborigines in the Territory
did not work at the rate and level of European employees , the commission
accepted the principle of equal wages . It also deferred implementation until
December ...
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argued that rural people were not interested in high culture , arguing , for
example , that people in the Bush who went to the cinema preferred actionfilled
westerns to sophisticated dramas and comedies . 209 Nevertheless , in 1943
Dorothy ...
argued that rural people were not interested in high culture , arguing , for
example , that people in the Bush who went to the cinema preferred actionfilled
westerns to sophisticated dramas and comedies . 209 Nevertheless , in 1943
Dorothy ...
Page 260
In 1954 in The Legend of the Nineties , Vance Palmer argued that the gold
diggers of the 1850s had developed an ethos based on mateship , democracy
and nationalism , and passed it on to the itinerant shearers and rouseabouts ,
who ...
In 1954 in The Legend of the Nineties , Vance Palmer argued that the gold
diggers of the 1850s had developed an ethos based on mateship , democracy
and nationalism , and passed it on to the itinerant shearers and rouseabouts ,
who ...
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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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