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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... Colony , ' wrote George Leslie from New South Wales to his parents in Scotland , ' for we cannot afford to buy land in the Colony now that the minimum price of Govt land is twelve shillings an acre.'17 The response of the colonial ...
... Colony , ' wrote George Leslie from New South Wales to his parents in Scotland , ' for we cannot afford to buy land in the Colony now that the minimum price of Govt land is twelve shillings an acre.'17 The response of the colonial ...
Page 77
... colonial pastoralists also began to market a more attractive product , concentrating on producing fine quality wool that was washed , either before or after shearing , before it was shipped . In 1821 colonial wool production stood at ...
... colonial pastoralists also began to market a more attractive product , concentrating on producing fine quality wool that was washed , either before or after shearing , before it was shipped . In 1821 colonial wool production stood at ...
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... colonial capitals . In that context they had little interest in either promoting or financing rural education . From the 1860s the colonial governments began to provide basic educational infrastructure , although schooling was not yet ...
... colonial capitals . In that context they had little interest in either promoting or financing rural education . From the 1860s the colonial governments began to provide basic educational infrastructure , although schooling was not yet ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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