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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40 Hunting too sometimes qualified as a domestic recreation , involving not only
men but women and children as well . A woman who lived near Castlemaine in
Victoria in the 1850s recalled that in the evenings ' a party was sometimes formed
...
40 Hunting too sometimes qualified as a domestic recreation , involving not only
men but women and children as well . A woman who lived near Castlemaine in
Victoria in the 1850s recalled that in the evenings ' a party was sometimes formed
...
Page 122
Indeed the loss of so many young lives in hunting accidents , combined with the
practice of some dare - devil young hunters seeking prey in urban ... 44 On other
occasions hunting was a formally organised and exclusively adult male activity .
Indeed the loss of so many young lives in hunting accidents , combined with the
practice of some dare - devil young hunters seeking prey in urban ... 44 On other
occasions hunting was a formally organised and exclusively adult male activity .
Page 123
49 In the early twentieth century some squatters turned to fox hunting as an
unambiguous , alternative form of leisure , arguing that it both promoted
fellowship among the elite and led to an improved breed of horse . More
commonly , however ...
49 In the early twentieth century some squatters turned to fox hunting as an
unambiguous , alternative form of leisure , arguing that it both promoted
fellowship among the elite and led to an improved breed of horse . More
commonly , however ...
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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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