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 145
... prosperity provided by gold . Henry Burton , the founder of the Blythe Waterland Serenaders , in 1851 also organised the first circus troupe to perform on the diggings , starting on the Turon and then moving to Bathurst and Victoria ...
... prosperity provided by gold . Henry Burton , the founder of the Blythe Waterland Serenaders , in 1851 also organised the first circus troupe to perform on the diggings , starting on the Turon and then moving to Bathurst and Victoria ...
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... prosperity of the towns of Leeton and Griffith in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area , and of the dairy , fruit , and sheep and cattle producers of the Goulburn Valley.58 New schemes for the harnessing of the inland's water resources were ...
... prosperity of the towns of Leeton and Griffith in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area , and of the dairy , fruit , and sheep and cattle producers of the Goulburn Valley.58 New schemes for the harnessing of the inland's water resources were ...
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... prosperity and employment with industrialisation and the need to establish modern , large - scale factories in the capitals . City - dwelling Australians no longer saw the Bush as the source of the nation's present and future prosperity ...
... prosperity and employment with industrialisation and the need to establish modern , large - scale factories in the capitals . City - dwelling Australians no longer saw the Bush as the source of the nation's present and future prosperity ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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