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 26
... period . Because the act had no penalties for dummying the squatters ' practice of getting their own employees to acquire land and then ' sell ' it on to their bosses it too became a vehicle for the graziers to increase their holdings ...
... period . Because the act had no penalties for dummying the squatters ' practice of getting their own employees to acquire land and then ' sell ' it on to their bosses it too became a vehicle for the graziers to increase their holdings ...
Page 108
... period of wet weather . A delegation of men petitioned the supervisor for concessions . He had his own reasons for avoiding conflict because shearing needed to be completed before November , when spear - shaped grass seeds and rising ...
... period of wet weather . A delegation of men petitioned the supervisor for concessions . He had his own reasons for avoiding conflict because shearing needed to be completed before November , when spear - shaped grass seeds and rising ...
Page 222
... period after World War II was for sheep properties to become smaller . In 1920 there were twelve properties in Australia grazing flocks of more than 100,000 sheep , but by 1966 there were none . Now the vast majority of properties held ...
... period after World War II was for sheep properties to become smaller . In 1920 there were twelve properties in Australia grazing flocks of more than 100,000 sheep , but by 1966 there were none . Now the vast majority of properties held ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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