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 60
186 Perhaps the tale is apocryphal , but it illustrates the point that in rural — as
indeed in urban — Australia , Europeans now simply equated Aborigines with
other non - European ethnic groups . They were all to be considered and treated
as ...
186 Perhaps the tale is apocryphal , but it illustrates the point that in rural — as
indeed in urban — Australia , Europeans now simply equated Aborigines with
other non - European ethnic groups . They were all to be considered and treated
as ...
Page 98
Perhaps what contributed to the discipline that the family demonstrated in their
capacity for saving and work was the fact that they were Methodists who neither
drank nor gambled . When Harris retired in 1894 he received sufficient funds from
...
Perhaps what contributed to the discipline that the family demonstrated in their
capacity for saving and work was the fact that they were Methodists who neither
drank nor gambled . When Harris retired in 1894 he received sufficient funds from
...
Page 123
For those from English backgrounds , the absence of game laws in Australia
heightened their sense of freedom , and perhaps contributed to their assault on
wildlife as they revelled in undreamt - of liberties . In the second half of the
nineteenth ...
For those from English backgrounds , the absence of game laws in Australia
heightened their sense of freedom , and perhaps contributed to their assault on
wildlife as they revelled in undreamt - of liberties . In the second half of the
nineteenth ...
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Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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Aborigines agriculture allowed areas argued associated ATCJ August became Bulletin Bush capital carried cattle century changes characters Chinese claimed colonial communities companies continued course culture December developed early economic English established European families farmers farms February followed History horses houses hunting improvements included industry introduced January June kangaroos labour land late least less lived managers March Minstrel Show nineteenth century Northern noted November October organised pastoral pastoralists performed perhaps period play policies popular practice production properties prosperity Queensland racing reflected relations remained Report result River runs rural Australia Selection selectors September servants settlement settlers shearers shearing sheep shepherds social society sometimes South Wales sport squatters stations stories success Sydney Territory theatre took towns traditional travelled turn urban values Victoria wages Walkabout Western Australia women wool workers World
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia |
| Author | Richard Waterhouse |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Curtin University Books, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 1920731059, 9781920731052 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Australia & New Zealand History / Social History Social Science / Sociology / Rural |
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