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 81
... less expensive enterprise for these animals needed far less attention than sheep . They were less susceptible to attacks from dingoes , harder to steal , and foraged far and wide in search of food , rather than needing to be led to ...
... less expensive enterprise for these animals needed far less attention than sheep . They were less susceptible to attacks from dingoes , harder to steal , and foraged far and wide in search of food , rather than needing to be led to ...
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... less than 1000. Armidale in 1870 boasted a population of 1300 served by a total of ten pubs . It was an indication of the cultural values of the townsfolk of Narrandera in the Riverina at this time that it possessed seventeen public ...
... less than 1000. Armidale in 1870 boasted a population of 1300 served by a total of ten pubs . It was an indication of the cultural values of the townsfolk of Narrandera in the Riverina at this time that it possessed seventeen public ...
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... less on the anti - authoritarianist qualities of the digger and more on his unselfishness , his nobility , his willingness to sacrifice . In the inter - war period some Australians like John Flynn , the founder of the Flying Doctor ...
... less on the anti - authoritarianist qualities of the digger and more on his unselfishness , his nobility , his willingness to sacrifice . In the inter - war period some Australians like John Flynn , the founder of the Flying Doctor ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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