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Title Struggle country : the rural ideal in twentieth century Australia / edited by Graeme Davison and Marc Brodie
Published Clayton, Vic. : Monash University ePress, 2005

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Description 1 online resource ((199) pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Country life / Graeme Davision -- Rural womanhood and the "embellishment" of rural life in urban Australia / Kate Murphy -- History and memory in Australia's wheatlands / Joy McCann -- Local history and decline in country Victoria / Helen Doyle -- The river and the town / Jill Tacon -- Closer settlement in Queensland / David Cameron -- Listening in to The Lawsons / Megan Blair -- The Rocky Gully exodus / Jaime Phillips -- The politics of rural nostalgia between the wars / Marc Brodie -- The dying town syndrome / Monica Keneley -- Return to "countrymindedness" / Don Aitken
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 Idea 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 politicians, and historians themselves, led to specific positive and negative outcomes in these areas, which in turn influenced how these regions were treated. Struggle Country revitalises the field of rural history, bringing a nuanced approach to studies of "the bush" that distinguishes between farmers and country town dwellers and their different experiences and beliefs. It provides both historical and contemporary analyses that place recent problems within the broader context of the development of rural Australia. And it examines the perspectives from which country people have seen themselves and their future, and how this has affected development in country areas."--Home page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Rural development -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
Sociology, Rural -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
Rural conditions
Rural development
Sociology, Rural
SUBJECT Australia -- Rural conditions
Subject Australia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Davison, Graeme, 1940-
Brodie, Marc
LC no. 2006404158
ISBN 0975747533
9780975747537
0975747525
9780975747520