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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... practices , Aborigines antagonised the interlopers because their practice of setting fire to the grass to flush out the ... practice of the former of seizing Aboriginal women for the purpose of sexual ' relations ' . If Aborigines picked ...
... practices , Aborigines antagonised the interlopers because their practice of setting fire to the grass to flush out the ... practice of the former of seizing Aboriginal women for the purpose of sexual ' relations ' . If Aborigines picked ...
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... practice . Some techniques were particularly primitive , cruel and wasteful . Before shearing , for example , the ... practices.22 Yet , it was also true that the pastoralists ' very unfamiliarity with the colonial Washing techniques ...
... practice . Some techniques were particularly primitive , cruel and wasteful . Before shearing , for example , the ... practices.22 Yet , it was also true that the pastoralists ' very unfamiliarity with the colonial Washing techniques ...
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... practice ceased to be so common : towns like this were the sites of both old and new cultural practices and values.70 Public Recreations : Hotels As European settlers moved from the coast to the hinterland , public houses quickly became ...
... practice ceased to be so common : towns like this were the sites of both old and new cultural practices and values.70 Public Recreations : Hotels As European settlers moved from the coast to the hinterland , public houses quickly became ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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