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 28
... runs . The Land Alienation Act ( 1868 ) and the Homestead Act ( 1872 ) were designed to provide further encouragement to closer settlement , allowing farmers to select either 80 - acre agricultural or 160 - acre pastoral homesteads ...
... runs . The Land Alienation Act ( 1868 ) and the Homestead Act ( 1872 ) were designed to provide further encouragement to closer settlement , allowing farmers to select either 80 - acre agricultural or 160 - acre pastoral homesteads ...
Page 78
... runs from their counterparts later in the century . In the first place , squatters who established runs outside the prescribed limits of settlement in New South Wales - runs to which they had no legal title , at least before the Orders ...
... runs from their counterparts later in the century . In the first place , squatters who established runs outside the prescribed limits of settlement in New South Wales - runs to which they had no legal title , at least before the Orders ...
Page 184
... run their properties and stations.79 They denied food and lodging even to swaggies on the brink of starvation , and sought to trick itinerant workers out of their wages.80 In one cartoon a squatter proposes a verbal agreement to a ...
... run their properties and stations.79 They denied food and lodging even to swaggies on the brink of starvation , and sought to trick itinerant workers out of their wages.80 In one cartoon a squatter proposes a verbal agreement to a ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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