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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... pastoral industry into far western Queensland , the Northern Territory and the northern areas of Western Australia , the vast majority of Australia's land was still used for grazing . Moreover , in areas suited to mixed farming those ...
... pastoral industry into far western Queensland , the Northern Territory and the northern areas of Western Australia , the vast majority of Australia's land was still used for grazing . Moreover , in areas suited to mixed farming those ...
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... pastoral workers claimed that Chinese labour threatened their jobs . Indeed , some unionists insisted that such a perceived threat was at the heart of the bitter disputes that divided pastoralists and their workers in the 1890s , as the ...
... pastoral workers claimed that Chinese labour threatened their jobs . Indeed , some unionists insisted that such a perceived threat was at the heart of the bitter disputes that divided pastoralists and their workers in the 1890s , as the ...
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... Pastoral Employment Guide , n.p. 131 APR , 16 November 1928 , 16 November 1928 . 132 Walkabout , 1 May 1936 ; JW Bleakley , The Aboriginals and Half - Castes of Central Australia and North Australia , 7 . 133 McGrath , ' Aboriginal ...
... Pastoral Employment Guide , n.p. 131 APR , 16 November 1928 , 16 November 1928 . 132 Walkabout , 1 May 1936 ; JW Bleakley , The Aboriginals and Half - Castes of Central Australia and North Australia , 7 . 133 McGrath , ' Aboriginal ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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