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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sexes ise ironment a sexes and the absence of a disease environment a creole
population quickly emerged . Giving stimulus to a natural population growth was
the emphasis the Puritans placed on family life . Distrustful of society based on ...
sexes ise ironment a sexes and the absence of a disease environment a creole
population quickly emerged . Giving stimulus to a natural population growth was
the emphasis the Puritans placed on family life . Distrustful of society based on ...
Page 71
Ironically , that engine of progress , the steam locomotive , was a regular
instigator of bushfires because of its tendency to emit sparks . 231 The
Europeans were aware of the changes they had made to the environment , and
they knew too that ...
Ironically , that engine of progress , the steam locomotive , was a regular
instigator of bushfires because of its tendency to emit sparks . 231 The
Europeans were aware of the changes they had made to the environment , and
they knew too that ...
Page 73
And the changes Europeans made to the local environment , the species they
introduced , exacerbated rather than lessened those risks . Indeed , one of the
hard lessons learnt by those who occupied marginal land , in particular , was that
...
And the changes Europeans made to the local environment , the species they
introduced , exacerbated rather than lessened those risks . Indeed , one of the
hard lessons learnt by those who occupied marginal land , in particular , was that
...
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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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