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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... century the English had dispossessed the Irish of their lands , arguing that as nomadic herdsmen they were not making the best use of them . Again , when the English invaded North America in the following century they confiscated the ...
... century the English had dispossessed the Irish of their lands , arguing that as nomadic herdsmen they were not making the best use of them . Again , when the English invaded North America in the following century they confiscated the ...
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... century cattle growing remained less labour- intensive than sheep raising and therefore the costs associated with establishing and maintaining a cattle property remained lower . But , as with sheep runs , the Orders in Council of 1847 ...
... century cattle growing remained less labour- intensive than sheep raising and therefore the costs associated with establishing and maintaining a cattle property remained lower . But , as with sheep runs , the Orders in Council of 1847 ...
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... century ' , 38 From the mid - nineteenth century — especially after 1880 , by which time the last city - dwelling Aborigines were removed to the town peripheries most urban - dwelling Australians had little if any contact with ...
... century ' , 38 From the mid - nineteenth century — especially after 1880 , by which time the last city - dwelling Aborigines were removed to the town peripheries most urban - dwelling Australians had little if any contact with ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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