02141nam 22004453 450 991101137110332120250409080348.01-76046-676-X(MiAaPQ)EBC31986314(Au-PeEL)EBL31986314(CKB)38265024600041(NjHacI)9938265024600041(EXLCZ)993826502460004120250409d2025 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrier'We Are a Farming Class' Dubbo's Hinterland, 1870-19501st ed.Canberra :ANU Press,2025.©2025.1 online resource (366 pages)1-76046-675-1 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.'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.FarmersAustraliaAgricultureAustraliaNew South WalesHistoryFarmersAgricultureHistory.338.10994Woodley Peter1829265MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911011371103321We Are a Farming Class4398474UNINA