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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they continued to dominate the committees and membership of such prestigious
country clubs as Ipswich . 100 However , perhaps influenced by the rowdiness
and disorder that characterised crowd behaviour on some courses , as well as
the ...
they continued to dominate the committees and membership of such prestigious
country clubs as Ipswich . 100 However , perhaps influenced by the rowdiness
and disorder that characterised crowd behaviour on some courses , as well as
the ...
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97 The wool industry continued to expand between the wars with the opening ,
for example , of several million acres to sheep in the country north of Kalgoorlie .
But if the trend was towards larger farms , the tendency in this and the period after
...
97 The wool industry continued to expand between the wars with the opening ,
for example , of several million acres to sheep in the country north of Kalgoorlie .
But if the trend was towards larger farms , the tendency in this and the period after
...
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202 In the meantime , those cinema owners who continued to show silent films
found their audiences disappearing 203 In any case by the 1930s the cinema
was regarded as an essential small - town entertainment and even those on ...
202 In the meantime , those cinema owners who continued to show silent films
found their audiences disappearing 203 In any case by the 1930s the cinema
was regarded as an essential small - town entertainment and even those on ...
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Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia |
| Author | Richard Waterhouse |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Curtin University Books, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 1920731059, 9781920731052 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Australia & New Zealand History / Social History Social Science / Sociology / Rural |
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