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UNINA9911011371103321 |
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Autore |
Woodley Peter |
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Titolo |
'We Are a Farming Class' : Dubbo's Hinterland, 1870-1950 |
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Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2025 |
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©2025 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (366 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Farmers - Australia |
Agriculture - Australia - New South Wales - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- 1. 'Poor struggling men': the slow emergence of a farming class to 1880 -- 2. 'And we are shunned and out in the cold': schools and the making of community and class -- 3. 'Making a poor man poorer': credit and debt -- 4. 'A decent sort of a chap': farmers and labour, 1880-1930 -- 5. 'The farmers have been most loyal': political allegiance in the farmlands -- 6. 'Tethered to the world': transport, communication and imagining the farmlands -- 7. 'All thoughts of depression were banished': voluntary associations and the making of social spaces and communities -- 8. 'The tales of the pioneers are told': the place of the past in local consciousness -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'We are a farming class' examines the lives of people in the farmlands surrounding Dubbo in the New South Wales central west between the 1870s and the 1950s, from free selection and the establishment of agriculture to the dawning of postwar prosperity and change. |
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