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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... workers . This culminated in the actions of shearers and other bush workers during the strikes of the 1890s in firing the grass and woolsheds of those squatters considered the most anti - union . Initially , the term bushranger was ...
... workers . This culminated in the actions of shearers and other bush workers during the strikes of the 1890s in firing the grass and woolsheds of those squatters considered the most anti - union . Initially , the term bushranger was ...
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... bush workers as the unique Australian type , utilitarian , egalitarian , communitarian , anti - authoritarian , lost currency in the early twentieth century . Certainly the Bush legend became the digger legend , but it now existed in a ...
... bush workers as the unique Australian type , utilitarian , egalitarian , communitarian , anti - authoritarian , lost currency in the early twentieth century . Certainly the Bush legend became the digger legend , but it now existed in a ...
Page 260
... bush ' songs and ' folk ' dances in an attempt to recreate the ' authentic ' folk culture of the previous century ... workers . Subsequently associated with the diggers and nomadic bush workers of the late nineteenth century , the values ...
... bush ' songs and ' folk ' dances in an attempt to recreate the ' authentic ' folk culture of the previous century ... workers . Subsequently associated with the diggers and nomadic bush workers of the late nineteenth century , the values ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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