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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... immigrant workers were hard and cruel . But their views of the Chinese settlers proved to be far more ambiguous . Indentured Chinese labour arrived in the 1840s , with some of the immigrants becoming shepherds on the newly established ...
... immigrant workers were hard and cruel . But their views of the Chinese settlers proved to be far more ambiguous . Indentured Chinese labour arrived in the 1840s , with some of the immigrants becoming shepherds on the newly established ...
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A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia Richard Waterhouse. 189 Sherington , Australia's Immigrants , 44–5 ; James Jupp , 38 . 190 APR , 16 October 1893 , 16 November 1896 . 191 ATCJ , 9 September 1893 , 11 January 1896 . 192 JJ ...
A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia Richard Waterhouse. 189 Sherington , Australia's Immigrants , 44–5 ; James Jupp , 38 . 190 APR , 16 October 1893 , 16 November 1896 . 191 ATCJ , 9 September 1893 , 11 January 1896 . 192 JJ ...
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... immigrants , 228 Imperial Waste Lands Act ( 1846 ) , 22 The Indian Massacre , 154 Inverell , 146 iron ore , 211 , 217 irrigation , 203–4 Irish settlers , 60 itinerant workers see shearers , swagmen Jamaica , 17 The Jazz Singer , 249 ...
... immigrants , 228 Imperial Waste Lands Act ( 1846 ) , 22 The Indian Massacre , 154 Inverell , 146 iron ore , 211 , 217 irrigation , 203–4 Irish settlers , 60 itinerant workers see shearers , swagmen Jamaica , 17 The Jazz Singer , 249 ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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