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 54
On many runs Aborigines were employed primarily for the purpose of hunting
game but they were also used to hunt lost stock , labour on improvements and as
shepherds and drovers . clearing ground for crops ( and protecting them from ...
On many runs Aborigines were employed primarily for the purpose of hunting
game but they were also used to hunt lost stock , labour on improvements and as
shepherds and drovers . clearing ground for crops ( and protecting them from ...
Page 101
103 The majority of assigned servants were employed as shepherds and
hutkeepers . Most squatters in New South Wales set up head stations , which
provided pastures for their horses and oxen , and several out - stations each
staffed by two ...
103 The majority of assigned servants were employed as shepherds and
hutkeepers . Most squatters in New South Wales set up head stations , which
provided pastures for their horses and oxen , and several out - stations each
staffed by two ...
Page 102
With the fencing of properties , beginning in the 1850s , shepherds were replaced
by boundary riders who checked on the sheep and repaired damage to fences .
They rarely settled down to work constantly for one employer . into alcoholism ...
With the fencing of properties , beginning in the 1850s , shepherds were replaced
by boundary riders who checked on the sheep and repaired damage to fences .
They rarely settled down to work constantly for one employer . into alcoholism ...
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Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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Aborigines agriculture allowed areas argued associated ATCJ August became Bulletin Bush capital carried cattle century changes characters Chinese claimed colonial communities companies continued course culture December developed early economic English established European families farmers farms February followed History horses houses hunting improvements included industry introduced January June kangaroos labour land late least less lived managers March Minstrel Show nineteenth century Northern noted November October organised pastoral pastoralists performed perhaps period play policies popular practice production properties prosperity Queensland racing reflected relations remained Report result River runs rural Australia Selection selectors September servants settlement settlers shearers shearing sheep shepherds social society sometimes South Wales sport squatters stations stories success Sydney Territory theatre took towns traditional travelled turn urban values Victoria wages Walkabout Western Australia women wool workers World
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia |
| Author | Richard Waterhouse |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Curtin University Books, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 1920731059, 9781920731052 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Australia & New Zealand History / Social History Social Science / Sociology / Rural |
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