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 70
... early view of the Bathurst Plains . By the early twentieth century , the crossing to the Blue Mountains and the establishment of pastoralist industry in the area around Bathurst were valorised as marking the beginnings of Australian ...
... early view of the Bathurst Plains . By the early twentieth century , the crossing to the Blue Mountains and the establishment of pastoralist industry in the area around Bathurst were valorised as marking the beginnings of Australian ...
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... early pastoralists , as we have seen , invested in both cattle and sheep , although from the early 1820s some began to specialise in grazing one or the other . The spread of settlement into the Hunter , across the Blue Mountains into ...
... early pastoralists , as we have seen , invested in both cattle and sheep , although from the early 1820s some began to specialise in grazing one or the other . The spread of settlement into the Hunter , across the Blue Mountains into ...
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... early years of the twentieth century.66 The result was a dramatic cut in the cost of harvesting as well as in the time it took . By the early twentieth century , wheat fields on the larger holdings were ploughed by multi - furrowed ...
... early years of the twentieth century.66 The result was a dramatic cut in the cost of harvesting as well as in the time it took . By the early twentieth century , wheat fields on the larger holdings were ploughed by multi - furrowed ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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