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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... pioneer legend . In the four features about the Rudds made by Ken G Hall in the 1930s and based loosely on the On Our Selection stories , the family is portrayed in classic pioneer terms . When Dad is threatened with the loss of his ...
... pioneer legend . In the four features about the Rudds made by Ken G Hall in the 1930s and based loosely on the On Our Selection stories , the family is portrayed in classic pioneer terms . When Dad is threatened with the loss of his ...
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... pioneers . The family is driven to insolvency by fire , flood and drought but the Rudds ' collective spirit remains ... pioneer legend seemed a safe and uncontroversial choice . Films like Smiley ( 1956 ) portrayed rural life in terms ...
... pioneers . The family is driven to insolvency by fire , flood and drought but the Rudds ' collective spirit remains ... pioneer legend seemed a safe and uncontroversial choice . Films like Smiley ( 1956 ) portrayed rural life in terms ...
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... pioneer and Bush legends were compatible , arguing that it was possible to combine hardy , nomadic , male individualism with a commitment to domesticity and family.231 But itinerant bush workers were valorised far less often than hardy ...
... pioneer and Bush legends were compatible , arguing that it was possible to combine hardy , nomadic , male individualism with a commitment to domesticity and family.231 But itinerant bush workers were valorised far less often than hardy ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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