LEADER 03076nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910143279903321 005 20230120032502.0 010 $a0-9757475-3-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000343866 035 $a(EBL)258192 035 $a(OCoLC)225552073 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000252750 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11209384 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000252750 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10180544 035 $a(PQKB)10960946 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3340022 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC258192 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3340022 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10145573 035 $a(OCoLC)927230666 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL258192 035 $a(OCoLC)133168359 035 $aEBL7009591 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL7009591 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7009591 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000343866 100 $a20060503d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aStruggle country$b[electronic resource] $ethe rural ideal in twentieth century Australia /$fedited by Graeme Davison and Marc Brodie 210 $aClayton, Vic. $cMonash University ePress$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (200 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-9757475-2-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; 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'; 330 $aThe 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 606 $aRural development$zAustralia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSociology, Rural$zAustralia$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aAustralia$xRural conditions 615 0$aRural development$xHistory 615 0$aSociology, Rural$xHistory 676 $a307.720994/0904 701 $aDavison$b Graeme$f1940-$0883299 701 $aBrodie$b Marc$01053672 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910143279903321 996 $aStruggle country$92485706 997 $aUNINA