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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... labour on improvements and as shepherds and drovers . clearing ground for crops ( and protecting them from caterpillars and crows ) , grubbing stumps , and cutting bark to build huts for the squatters and their European workers . 152 ...
... labour on improvements and as shepherds and drovers . clearing ground for crops ( and protecting them from caterpillars and crows ) , grubbing stumps , and cutting bark to build huts for the squatters and their European workers . 152 ...
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... labour because of the labour shortages caused as the European bush workers deserted the runs to pan for gold near Bathurst and Bendigo . Aborigines now took on trades previously reserved for Europeans , notably shearing . In most places ...
... labour because of the labour shortages caused as the European bush workers deserted the runs to pan for gold near Bathurst and Bendigo . Aborigines now took on trades previously reserved for Europeans , notably shearing . In most places ...
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... labour . This system was quicker and cheaper than one in which the owner or manager hired his own labour and so was attractive even to those suspicious of the new technology.45 Effectively , not only new forms of industrialism were ...
... labour . This system was quicker and cheaper than one in which the owner or manager hired his own labour and so was attractive even to those suspicious of the new technology.45 Effectively , not only new forms of industrialism were ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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