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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Page 37
... late nineteenth century bicycles became a substitute for horse transport . Shearers and other itinerants now used the railways to travel to the region in which they worked ... late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries bicycles became 37.
... late nineteenth century bicycles became a substitute for horse transport . Shearers and other itinerants now used the railways to travel to the region in which they worked ... late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries bicycles became 37.
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... late - nineteenth- century nostalgia for the passing of the frontier and the ' hardy ' European pioneers who settled it was replaced in the early twentieth century with an optimistic rhetoric promoting rural Australia as the source of ...
... late - nineteenth- century nostalgia for the passing of the frontier and the ' hardy ' European pioneers who settled it was replaced in the early twentieth century with an optimistic rhetoric promoting rural Australia as the source of ...
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... late nineteenth century Europeans viewed such occasions as rare and anachronistic , but for the Aborigines they were an essential conduit . 175 The missionaries , many of whom at first thought the process of conversion would prove easy ...
... late nineteenth century Europeans viewed such occasions as rare and anachronistic , but for the Aborigines they were an essential conduit . 175 The missionaries , many of whom at first thought the process of conversion would prove easy ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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