Struggle Country : The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia / edited by Graeme Davison and Marc Brodie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davison, Graeme, 1940- editor.

Brodie, Marc, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : Monash University ePress, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The decline of Australian country life is not new – either as a phenomenon or as a popular fear. Contemporary interest in this area is often highlighted in hopeful policy frameworks for the revitalisation of town and countryside. The continuing interaction between our dreams of the Australian countryside and the reality of its decline is the key focus of Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia. Linking present concerns to history, this collection of essays looks at how the dreams of progress that captured the imagination of country towns and regions, city politician

Contents:

Contents; CHAPTER 1 Country life; CHAPTER 2 Rural womanhood and the 'embellishment' of rural life in urban Australia; CHAPTER 3 History and memory in Australia's wheatlands; CHAPTER 4 Local history and decline in country Victoria; CHAPTER 5 The river and the town; CHAPTER 6 Closer settlement in Queensland; CHAPTER 7 Listening in to The Lawsons; CHAPTER 8 The Rocky Gully exodus; CHAPTER 9 The politics of rural nostalgia between the wars; CHAPTER 10 The dying town syndrome; AFTERWORD Return to 'countrymindedness';

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9780975747537

0975747533

OCLC:

225552073