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Acknowledgements


 
 Acknowledgments

Figures and Tables


 
 List of figures and tables

Introduction


 
 Introduction

Chapter 1


 
 Country life
The rise and decline of an Australian ideal

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
The rise and decline of the agrarian dream, 1860s–1960s

Chapter 7


 
 Listening in to The Lawsons
Radio crosses the urban-rural divide

Chapter 8


 
 The Rocky Gully exodus

Chapter 9


 
 The politics of rural nostalgia between the wars

Chapter 10


 
 The dying town syndrome
A survey of urban development in the Western District of Victoria, 1890–1930

Afterword


 
 Return to ‘countrymindedness’