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 46
... took the older notions about Europeans ' entitlement to the land because they made better use of it , and overlaid them with a modern vocabulary and a set of ' scientific ' arguments to reinforce the earlier ' cultural ' arguments ...
... took the older notions about Europeans ' entitlement to the land because they made better use of it , and overlaid them with a modern vocabulary and a set of ' scientific ' arguments to reinforce the earlier ' cultural ' arguments ...
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... took out a patent on a ' sheep shearing machine ' , and imported models were on show at the Melbourne Exhibition in ... took a shearer only two or three weeks to learn how to use mechanical shears , while proficiency in the use of hand ...
... took out a patent on a ' sheep shearing machine ' , and imported models were on show at the Melbourne Exhibition in ... took a shearer only two or three weeks to learn how to use mechanical shears , while proficiency in the use of hand ...
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... took place . From the 1880s milk and cream from farms on the Macleay and elsewhere were no longer processed laboriously by hand on site , but instead were carried by steamer , train or cart to the co - operative factories that had ...
... took place . From the 1880s milk and cream from farms on the Macleay and elsewhere were no longer processed laboriously by hand on site , but instead were carried by steamer , train or cart to the co - operative factories that had ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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