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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... wool as a potentially valuable export . Before wool became an export commodity , King believed , the colonists themselves needed to be clothed . Nor was it clear to King how the staple was to be carried to England at a cost that ...
... wool as a potentially valuable export . Before wool became an export commodity , King believed , the colonists themselves needed to be clothed . Nor was it clear to King how the staple was to be carried to England at a cost that ...
Page 77
... wool that was washed , either before or after shearing , before it was shipped . In 1821 colonial wool production stood at 175,000 pounds but already by 1844 it had reached 13.5 million pounds.7 Some of Britain's North American and ...
... wool that was washed , either before or after shearing , before it was shipped . In 1821 colonial wool production stood at 175,000 pounds but already by 1844 it had reached 13.5 million pounds.7 Some of Britain's North American and ...
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... wool clean during the three- or four - day gap between washing and shearing , and so from the 1870s they developed the practice of machine scouring the wool after shearing . The purpose of washing had been to make the wool marketable ...
... wool clean during the three- or four - day gap between washing and shearing , and so from the 1870s they developed the practice of machine scouring the wool after shearing . The purpose of washing had been to make the wool marketable ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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