Struggle Country : The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Melbourne :
Monash University Publishing,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
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'.