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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Page 19
... colonists to explore the inland with the prospect of discovering exportable staples , or at least land where they might be grown.6 The other was to direct the colonial authorities to experiment with crops on land already occupied ...
... colonists to explore the inland with the prospect of discovering exportable staples , or at least land where they might be grown.6 The other was to direct the colonial authorities to experiment with crops on land already occupied ...
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... colonists in Australia conceived the Aborigines to be wanderers and nomads who were incapable of making proper use of the land . ' I am one of those who think this fine country never was intended only to be occupied by a nomad race who ...
... colonists in Australia conceived the Aborigines to be wanderers and nomads who were incapable of making proper use of the land . ' I am one of those who think this fine country never was intended only to be occupied by a nomad race who ...
Page 66
... colonists largely disregarded them in their relentless and ruthless search for land , resources and riches . The French , English and Spanish colonists were constantly in conflict and regularly committed depredations on each other as ...
... colonists largely disregarded them in their relentless and ruthless search for land , resources and riches . The French , English and Spanish colonists were constantly in conflict and regularly committed depredations on each other as ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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