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 76
... powerful to ignore . His solution was to seek to balance grazing and agriculture . At Bathurst he proposed to settle families of the ' Middling Class ' on areas of between fifty and one hundred acres in the immediate vicinity of the ...
... powerful to ignore . His solution was to seek to balance grazing and agriculture . At Bathurst he proposed to settle families of the ' Middling Class ' on areas of between fifty and one hundred acres in the immediate vicinity of the ...
Page 105
... powerful influence , albeit confined essentially to urban areas . Certainly , colonial discourses argued that it was the responsibility of rural women to settle and domesticate a mobile and dangerous male tribe , but such an ideology ...
... powerful influence , albeit confined essentially to urban areas . Certainly , colonial discourses argued that it was the responsibility of rural women to settle and domesticate a mobile and dangerous male tribe , but such an ideology ...
Page 266
... powerful inducements for people to move from rural to urban areas.244 In 1944 the Rural Reconstruction Commission noted that , despite the common assumption that rural Australians had simpler desires , more modest expectations than ...
... powerful inducements for people to move from rural to urban areas.244 In 1944 the Rural Reconstruction Commission noted that , despite the common assumption that rural Australians had simpler desires , more modest expectations than ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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