Struggle Country : The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia.

Brodie, Mark.

Struggle Country : The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (202 pages)

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'.

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Electronic books.

HN850.Z9C6 2005

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