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 49
... Sometimes a mounted group of pastoralists and their employees targeted those accused of specific acts of theft or violence . When they caught them they sometimes shot to wound , more often to kill . But it was also common for parties of ...
... Sometimes a mounted group of pastoralists and their employees targeted those accused of specific acts of theft or violence . When they caught them they sometimes shot to wound , more often to kill . But it was also common for parties of ...
Page 114
... sometimes used.6 Despite the emphasis on informality in these early days , even the squatters of modest means sometimes sought to differentiate themselves from those they identified as lower in the social order . In the area around Lake ...
... sometimes used.6 Despite the emphasis on informality in these early days , even the squatters of modest means sometimes sought to differentiate themselves from those they identified as lower in the social order . In the area around Lake ...
Page 121
... sometimes even conquering , a harsh landscape , and in the process creating a society that was not quite like urban ... sometimes qualified as a domestic recreation , involving not only men but women and children as well . A woman who ...
... sometimes even conquering , a harsh landscape , and in the process creating a society that was not quite like urban ... sometimes qualified as a domestic recreation , involving not only men but women and children as well . A woman who ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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