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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... settlement small wheat farms proliferated , boosted by the arrival of the railroad and the federal government's introduction of a minimum price for wheat in 1915.55 On the Darling Downs too , closer settlement resulted in the spread of ...
... settlement small wheat farms proliferated , boosted by the arrival of the railroad and the federal government's introduction of a minimum price for wheat in 1915.55 On the Darling Downs too , closer settlement resulted in the spread of ...
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... settlement of ex - servicemen on the land . The lawless behaviour of some ex - soldiers convinced many Australians that they constituted a potential source of social unrest and might be targeted by political radicals . The aim of ...
... settlement of ex - servicemen on the land . The lawless behaviour of some ex - soldiers convinced many Australians that they constituted a potential source of social unrest and might be targeted by political radicals . The aim of ...
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... settlement reflected short- sighted policies , exacerbated by extensive administrative bungling . Stephen Garton has argued that soldier settlement was not an unmitigated disaster because , despite individual hardship and the ...
... settlement reflected short- sighted policies , exacerbated by extensive administrative bungling . Stephen Garton has argued that soldier settlement was not an unmitigated disaster because , despite individual hardship and the ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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