We are a farming class'
Notions of an arcadian farming life permeate settler-Australian understandings of themselves and their nation. Qualities of hard work, perseverance, resourcefulness, and a steady devotion to family and community—the historian John Hirst's Pioneer Legend—are idealised in this nation. But the people f...
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| description | Notions of an arcadian farming life permeate settler-Australian understandings of themselves and their nation. Qualities of hard work, perseverance, resourcefulness, and a steady devotion to family and community—the historian John Hirst's Pioneer Legend—are idealised in this nation. But the people from whom the legend is derived have rarely been studied in depth. They are more the stuff of myth and fond imagining than of concerted examination. To what extent is the legend built on lived experience? How have farming people thought of themselves and their contribution to a wider national mythos? '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. What emerges is a closely documented, ethnographically rich portrait of a way of life and culture at once distinctive and surprising, recognisable and unknown. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1616502025-06-20T05:05:38Z We are a farming class' Woodley, Peter Dubbo farming Class community Central West Murrumbidgerie Wongarbon Wellington Macquarie River Talbragar River Narromine Geurie thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSC Rural communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships Notions of an arcadian farming life permeate settler-Australian understandings of themselves and their nation. Qualities of hard work, perseverance, resourcefulness, and a steady devotion to family and community—the historian John Hirst's Pioneer Legend—are idealised in this nation. But the people from whom the legend is derived have rarely been studied in depth. They are more the stuff of myth and fond imagining than of concerted examination. To what extent is the legend built on lived experience? How have farming people thought of themselves and their contribution to a wider national mythos? '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. What emerges is a closely documented, ethnographically rich portrait of a way of life and culture at once distinctive and surprising, recognisable and unknown. 2025-06-20T05:05:37Z 2025-06-20T05:05:37Z 2025-06-19T08:49:48Z 2025 book ONIX_20250619T103617_9781760466763_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/103702 9781760466763 9781760466756 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/161650 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103702/1/9781760466763.pdf ANU Press ANU Press 10.22459/wafc.2025 10.22459/wafc.2025 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 9781760466763 9781760466756 ANU Press 366 Canberra open access |
| spellingShingle | Dubbo farming Class community Central West Murrumbidgerie Wongarbon Wellington Macquarie River Talbragar River Narromine Geurie thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSC Rural communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships Woodley, Peter We are a farming class' |
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