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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... farms were less than 100 acres . Here , selection after survey was the law . By 1854 , 7000 farmers were tilling more than 350,000 acres of soil , and wheat accounted for a higher percentage of the colony's exports than wool . Two ...
... farms were less than 100 acres . Here , selection after survey was the law . By 1854 , 7000 farmers were tilling more than 350,000 acres of soil , and wheat accounted for a higher percentage of the colony's exports than wool . Two ...
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... farms failed . Moreover , as the Rural Reconstruction Reports produced in World War II were to show , most farmers aspired to the same living standards as city workers , standards that the soldier - settlement schemes failed to deliver ...
... farms failed . Moreover , as the Rural Reconstruction Reports produced in World War II were to show , most farmers aspired to the same living standards as city workers , standards that the soldier - settlement schemes failed to deliver ...
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... farms into larger units after 1945 contributed to a revived wheat industry and the further loss of rural population . Not only were fewer farm workers needed , but many small farmers , including soldier settlers , did not possess the ...
... farms into larger units after 1945 contributed to a revived wheat industry and the further loss of rural population . Not only were fewer farm workers needed , but many small farmers , including soldier settlers , did not possess the ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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