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 136
... extensive train and steamship system that had earlier boosted country racing now made it easier to drain its resources into the city . In any case , commercialisation and modernisation failed to guarantee the continued success of ...
... extensive train and steamship system that had earlier boosted country racing now made it easier to drain its resources into the city . In any case , commercialisation and modernisation failed to guarantee the continued success of ...
Page 146
... extensive transport networks were built for moving primary products to market , they also became the means for the development of extensive rural theatrical circuits . As the railway systems , in particular , reached further and further ...
... extensive transport networks were built for moving primary products to market , they also became the means for the development of extensive rural theatrical circuits . As the railway systems , in particular , reached further and further ...
Page 203
... extensive administrative bungling . Stephen Garton has argued that soldier settlement was not an unmitigated disaster because , despite individual hardship and the abandonment of many farms , by 1939 perhaps as many as 20,000 families ...
... extensive administrative bungling . Stephen Garton has argued that soldier settlement was not an unmitigated disaster because , despite individual hardship and the abandonment of many farms , by 1939 perhaps as many as 20,000 families ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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