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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... soil , the variability of the rainfall and the inexperience of the farmers resulted in hardship for many settlers . Closer- settlement policies were also given credit for the simultaneous growth of dairying in Victoria and Queensland ...
... soil , the variability of the rainfall and the inexperience of the farmers resulted in hardship for many settlers . Closer- settlement policies were also given credit for the simultaneous growth of dairying in Victoria and Queensland ...
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... soil erosion was causing such serious damage that drastic action was required to address the problem . New South Wales had already established a Soil Conservation Service in 1933 , and by 1945 the other states had also created Soil ...
... soil erosion was causing such serious damage that drastic action was required to address the problem . New South Wales had already established a Soil Conservation Service in 1933 , and by 1945 the other states had also created Soil ...
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... Soil Conservation Advisory Committees , 207 Soil Conservation Service ( NSW ) , 207 soil erosion , 70 , 204 , 207 soldier - settlement , World War I , 200-4 World War II , 208-9 Sole's Circus , 249 Sons of Matthew , 256 sorghum , 216 ...
... Soil Conservation Advisory Committees , 207 Soil Conservation Service ( NSW ) , 207 soil erosion , 70 , 204 , 207 soldier - settlement , World War I , 200-4 World War II , 208-9 Sole's Circus , 249 Sons of Matthew , 256 sorghum , 216 ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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