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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... least in the immediate future . The lower production costs associated with pastoralism and the assured English market for colonial wool guaranteed that those with capital became graziers , leaving the cultivation of grain to small ...
... least in the immediate future . The lower production costs associated with pastoralism and the assured English market for colonial wool guaranteed that those with capital became graziers , leaving the cultivation of grain to small ...
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... least were found not guilty . 195 Nevertheless , for most rural Australians Sunday sports became something confined to the station , farm or backyard . Support for ' rational amusements ' in the colonies first emerged in Sydney in the ...
... least were found not guilty . 195 Nevertheless , for most rural Australians Sunday sports became something confined to the station , farm or backyard . Support for ' rational amusements ' in the colonies first emerged in Sydney in the ...
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... least wasteful of the nation's natural resources , he argued , were the Aborigines.43 Such ideas were the harbinger of a revolution in European attitudes towards the Bush and its Indigenous peoples . During World War II the debate over ...
... least wasteful of the nation's natural resources , he argued , were the Aborigines.43 Such ideas were the harbinger of a revolution in European attitudes towards the Bush and its Indigenous peoples . During World War II the debate over ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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