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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... values . Although there were clear differences between town and country , they also shared many of the same social and cultural institutions and some of the same values . My definition of the term ' culture ' is also broad , but ...
... values . Although there were clear differences between town and country , they also shared many of the same social and cultural institutions and some of the same values . My definition of the term ' culture ' is also broad , but ...
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... values and institutions and mapping the processes by which they were created and transformed . In pursuing this ambitious project I am reminded that in his famous article ' Sydney and the Bush : An Urban Context for the Australian ...
... values and institutions and mapping the processes by which they were created and transformed . In pursuing this ambitious project I am reminded that in his famous article ' Sydney and the Bush : An Urban Context for the Australian ...
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... values associated with a defiance of authority and the established order — mateship and a collectivist morality , resourcefulness and toughness , and a commitment to equality - were passed down by the convicts to successive generations ...
... values associated with a defiance of authority and the established order — mateship and a collectivist morality , resourcefulness and toughness , and a commitment to equality - were passed down by the convicts to successive generations ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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