Struggle Country : : The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia.

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TeilnehmendeR:
Place / Publishing House:Melbourne : : Monash University Publishing,, 2005.
Ã2005.
Year of Publication:2005
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (202 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Title page
  • Imprint and copyright information
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Introduction
  • 1. Country life
  • 2. Rural womanhood
  • 3. History and memory in Australia's wheatlands
  • 4. Local history and decline in country Victoria
  • 5. The river and the town
  • 6. Closer settlement in Queensland
  • 7. Listening in to The Lawsons
  • 8. The Rocky Gully exodus
  • 9. The politics of rural nostalgia between the wars
  • 10. The dying town syndrome
  • Afterword: Return to 'countrymindedness'.