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 64
... communities in segregated enclaves . Some Europeans regarded these ' Little Hong Kongs ' as exotic , wild and exciting , but many more saw them as sites of sin and depravity . Here , they claimed , the Chinese operated businesses that ...
... communities in segregated enclaves . Some Europeans regarded these ' Little Hong Kongs ' as exotic , wild and exciting , but many more saw them as sites of sin and depravity . Here , they claimed , the Chinese operated businesses that ...
Page 159
... communities were zealous in raising the matching funds required by the colonial government , rural absentee rates remained higher than city ones.210 With the arrival of compulsory education in New South Wales in the 1880s , many farmers ...
... communities were zealous in raising the matching funds required by the colonial government , rural absentee rates remained higher than city ones.210 With the arrival of compulsory education in New South Wales in the 1880s , many farmers ...
Page 256
... communities after World War II , the pioneer legend seemed a safe and uncontroversial choice . Films like Smiley ( 1956 ) portrayed rural life in terms of idealised , harmonious , small - town communities — albeit tinged with a touch of ...
... communities after World War II , the pioneer legend seemed a safe and uncontroversial choice . Films like Smiley ( 1956 ) portrayed rural life in terms of idealised , harmonious , small - town communities — albeit tinged with a touch of ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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