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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... land adjacent to that which they had purchased at the rate of £ 2 per square mile per annum.35 ― In Victoria the Land Act of 1860 allowed anyone to buy up to 640 acres a year . Effectively it became a licence for squatters to buy up ...
... land adjacent to that which they had purchased at the rate of £ 2 per square mile per annum.35 ― In Victoria the Land Act of 1860 allowed anyone to buy up to 640 acres a year . Effectively it became a licence for squatters to buy up ...
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... land sales to assist further immigration.39 At first land was sold at 10s and then at £ 1 an acre , the refusal of the colonial government to offer credit terms ensuring that , even as late as 1867 , half the farms were less than 100 ...
... land sales to assist further immigration.39 At first land was sold at 10s and then at £ 1 an acre , the refusal of the colonial government to offer credit terms ensuring that , even as late as 1867 , half the farms were less than 100 ...
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... Land Regulations for the Colony of Western Australia , 20 March 1872 ; Land Regulations for the Colony of Western Australia , 2 March 1887 ; Donald S Garden , Northam : An Avon Valley History , 102 . 44 Cannon , 141–2 ; Greenwood , 120 ...
... Land Regulations for the Colony of Western Australia , 20 March 1872 ; Land Regulations for the Colony of Western Australia , 2 March 1887 ; Donald S Garden , Northam : An Avon Valley History , 102 . 44 Cannon , 141–2 ; Greenwood , 120 ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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