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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... recent years accelerating demographic , economic and technological changes have combined to place enormous pressure on these values and institutions . In seeking to identify and map key rural cultural values and institutions I have used ...
... recent years accelerating demographic , economic and technological changes have combined to place enormous pressure on these values and institutions . In seeking to identify and map key rural cultural values and institutions I have used ...
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... recent times they have studied the structure of Australia's environment before and after human habitation . They have assessed the impact of technology on nature , and they have dissected the assumptions and ideas that shaped European ...
... recent times they have studied the structure of Australia's environment before and after human habitation . They have assessed the impact of technology on nature , and they have dissected the assumptions and ideas that shaped European ...
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... recent times . 131 Bobby Watson , Fifty Years Behind the Scenes : Being the Reminiscences of Bobby Watson , Australia's Favourite Comedian , 13-15 , 30 , 37 . 132 James Tucker , Jemmy Green in Australia : A Comedy in Three Acts , 3-–8 ...
... recent times . 131 Bobby Watson , Fifty Years Behind the Scenes : Being the Reminiscences of Bobby Watson , Australia's Favourite Comedian , 13-15 , 30 , 37 . 132 James Tucker , Jemmy Green in Australia : A Comedy in Three Acts , 3-–8 ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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