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 91
Indeed , the capital required to farm wheat economically meant that many
selectors , with their small holdings and meagre ... 67 Now in some ways the
large wheat farms resembled their sheep - raising counterparts : they had both
taken on the ...
Indeed , the capital required to farm wheat economically meant that many
selectors , with their small holdings and meagre ... 67 Now in some ways the
large wheat farms resembled their sheep - raising counterparts : they had both
taken on the ...
Page 203
24 The Western Australian government placed both soldier settlers and British
immigrant farmers on marginal wheat - growing land , which was highly
susceptible to drought and expensive to farm . With the collapse of prices in the
Depression ...
24 The Western Australian government placed both soldier settlers and British
immigrant farmers on marginal wheat - growing land , which was highly
susceptible to drought and expensive to farm . With the collapse of prices in the
Depression ...
Page 227
114 Mechanisation and the consolidation of 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 ...
114 Mechanisation and the consolidation of 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 ...
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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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