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 97
... described as men ' of enterprise and capital ' . 86 Contemporaries , the pastoralists particularly , did not associate the selectors with this entrepreneurial ethos . Rather , they described the selectors as belonging to the ' pauper ...
... described as men ' of enterprise and capital ' . 86 Contemporaries , the pastoralists particularly , did not associate the selectors with this entrepreneurial ethos . Rather , they described the selectors as belonging to the ' pauper ...
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... described as ' industrious and versatile ' and ' the mainstay of the Australian labour employer ' , men who could be paid on a casual and seasonal basis to undertake shearing , harvesting , drafting , lamb - marking , fencing , horse ...
... described as ' industrious and versatile ' and ' the mainstay of the Australian labour employer ' , men who could be paid on a casual and seasonal basis to undertake shearing , harvesting , drafting , lamb - marking , fencing , horse ...
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... described as embodying an ' essentially Australian ' and also possessing a transcendent universal quality that made it internationally significant.252 In the end , the impact of Corroboree was enormous . On the one hand , in seeking to ...
... described as embodying an ' essentially Australian ' and also possessing a transcendent universal quality that made it internationally significant.252 In the end , the impact of Corroboree was enormous . On the one hand , in seeking to ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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