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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... kangaroos and bush turkeys and trampled or ate out the murnong yam . By the 1840s the Aborigines of southeastern Australia had become largely dependent on food provided by Europeans , food which they were required to earn.151 Yet the ...
... kangaroos and bush turkeys and trampled or ate out the murnong yam . By the 1840s the Aborigines of southeastern Australia had become largely dependent on food provided by Europeans , food which they were required to earn.151 Yet the ...
Page 122
... kangaroos were identified as the ' common enemy ' , a threat to the stock - carrying capacities of runs . At first they were hunted by men on horseback , accompanied by dogs . When cornered , the kangaroos were either torn apart by the ...
... kangaroos were identified as the ' common enemy ' , a threat to the stock - carrying capacities of runs . At first they were hunted by men on horseback , accompanied by dogs . When cornered , the kangaroos were either torn apart by the ...
Page 123
... kangaroo was often the only flesh available.51 But it was not the preferred meat . The settlers shot wildlife of all types and varieties parrots , bush turkeys , ducks , pigeons , geese , possums , wombats , bandicoots , dingoes , kangaroos ...
... kangaroo was often the only flesh available.51 But it was not the preferred meat . The settlers shot wildlife of all types and varieties parrots , bush turkeys , ducks , pigeons , geese , possums , wombats , bandicoots , dingoes , kangaroos ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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