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
... squatters continued to occupy not only the prime pastoral areas but also those deemed suitable for agriculture in the southwest section of the colony . The acreage under wheat remained small and agricultural activity in general ...
... squatters continued to occupy not only the prime pastoral areas but also those deemed suitable for agriculture in the southwest section of the colony . The acreage under wheat remained small and agricultural activity in general ...
Page 29
... squatters and selectors that effectively amounted to class warfare . To survive , selectors sometimes resorted to the theft of squatters ' stock . And to protect their land the squatters adopted dubious , indeed illegal , ' defence ...
... squatters and selectors that effectively amounted to class warfare . To survive , selectors sometimes resorted to the theft of squatters ' stock . And to protect their land the squatters adopted dubious , indeed illegal , ' defence ...
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... squatters.212 It is regarded as fair war by the small agriculturist against the ascendant squatter ' , suggested Trollope.213 Frustrated by the cost of prosecution and the failure of juries to convict , some squatters took the law into ...
... squatters.212 It is regarded as fair war by the small agriculturist against the ascendant squatter ' , suggested Trollope.213 Frustrated by the cost of prosecution and the failure of juries to convict , some squatters took the law into ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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