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 103
... managers had to spend hundreds of pounds annually on provisions to feed them.117 Swagmen , who travelled the roads and tracks from station to station in search of casual employment , fitted into a different category . They were ...
... managers had to spend hundreds of pounds annually on provisions to feed them.117 Swagmen , who travelled the roads and tracks from station to station in search of casual employment , fitted into a different category . They were ...
Page 152
... managers to put together troupes comprising only one or two professionals , supplemented by a cast of amateur hopefuls , but they often sought to deceive country folk by bestowing the names of famous actors on obscure performers . They ...
... managers to put together troupes comprising only one or two professionals , supplemented by a cast of amateur hopefuls , but they often sought to deceive country folk by bestowing the names of famous actors on obscure performers . They ...
Page 239
... managers on the most remote outback stations complained that the dull daily routine was broken only by the arrival of the mailman and ' Hindu hawkers'.171 In the 1950s they had something more frequent to look forward to , for a time ...
... managers on the most remote outback stations complained that the dull daily routine was broken only by the arrival of the mailman and ' Hindu hawkers'.171 In the 1950s they had something more frequent to look forward to , for a time ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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