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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... introduced species failed , but others thrived in the mild climate and absence of natural predators . Introduced in 1845 to be hunted as game , by 1880 foxes had spread across thousands of square miles of Victoria and South Australia ...
... introduced species failed , but others thrived in the mild climate and absence of natural predators . Introduced in 1845 to be hunted as game , by 1880 foxes had spread across thousands of square miles of Victoria and South Australia ...
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... introduced species to benefit pastoralism and agriculture . Sometimes this was justified . In the early twentieth century prickly pear infested millions of acres of western Queensland and northwestern New South Wales , causing the ...
... introduced species to benefit pastoralism and agriculture . Sometimes this was justified . In the early twentieth century prickly pear infested millions of acres of western Queensland and northwestern New South Wales , causing the ...
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... introduced species to benefit pastoralism and agriculture . When the cane toad was introduced in the late 1930s it was hailed as a pest destroyer , praised as a potential household pet . ensure that pastoral and agricultural pursuits ...
... introduced species to benefit pastoralism and agriculture . When the cane toad was introduced in the late 1930s it was hailed as a pest destroyer , praised as a potential household pet . ensure that pastoral and agricultural pursuits ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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