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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... carried cargoes of wood , especially cedar , maize , potatoes , salted meat and some wool . In the last two decades of the century both in Queensland and New South Wales , steamers were the main movers of sugar and dairy products from ...
... carried cargoes of wood , especially cedar , maize , potatoes , salted meat and some wool . In the last two decades of the century both in Queensland and New South Wales , steamers were the main movers of sugar and dairy products from ...
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... carried them there symbolised a more technologically advanced society . Beginning in the 1870s , the most common concerns about rural crime centred on acts of vandalism committed by small - town youths . Complaints were common of young ...
... carried them there symbolised a more technologically advanced society . Beginning in the 1870s , the most common concerns about rural crime centred on acts of vandalism committed by small - town youths . Complaints were common of young ...
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... carried sets with them , claiming they dispelled the solitude of camping.180 Nor was radio's influence confined to ... carry live broadcasts of Sydney and Melbourne meetings . 181 But radio provided more than entertainment because it ...
... carried sets with them , claiming they dispelled the solitude of camping.180 Nor was radio's influence confined to ... carry live broadcasts of Sydney and Melbourne meetings . 181 But radio provided more than entertainment because it ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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