Life In The Country: Australia In The Victorian Age: 2
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Step back into the rugged, untamed heartland of nineteenth-century Australia, where the daily rhythms of rural life were shaped by drought, flood, fire, and the relentless ambition of a young nation forging its identity from the soil. Life in the Country: Australia in the Victorian Age: 2 is the second volume in Michael Cannon's landmark social history series, chronicling the lives of ordinary Australians — squatters, selectors, farm labourers, and pioneering families — who carved out an existence in the vast and often unforgiving Australian bush during the Victorian era. Drawing on a rich archive of historical records, photographs, illustrations, and first-hand accounts, Cannon presents an intimate and meticulously researched portrait of rural society, detailing everything from the economics of the pastoral industry to the domestic struggles of country women and children. This volume stands as a vital contribution to Australian historiography, sitting alongside Cannon's broader mission to illuminate the lived experience of the colonial period beyond the corridors of political power. His prose is accessible yet authoritative, weaving together the grand sweep of national history with the deeply personal textures of everyday rural life. Thematically rich in its treatment of class, land ownership, and the contested relationship between settlers and the environment, Life in the Country raises urgent questions about the foundations upon which modern Australia was built — questions whose echoes resonate long after the final page is turned.
Author: Michael Cannon
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Step back into the rugged, untamed heartland of nineteenth-century Australia, where the daily rhythms of rural life were shaped by drought, flood, fire, and the relentless ambition of a young nation forging its identity from the soil. Life in the Country: Australia in the Victorian Age: 2 is the second volume in Michael Cannon's landmark social history series, chronicling the lives of ordinary Australians — squatters, selectors, farm labourers, and pioneering families — who carved out an existence in the vast and often unforgiving Australian bush during the Victorian era. Drawing on a rich archive of historical records, photographs, illustrations, and first-hand accounts, Cannon presents an intimate and meticulously researched portrait of rural society, detailing everything from the economics of the pastoral industry to the domestic struggles of country women and children. This volume stands as a vital contribution to Australian historiography, sitting alongside Cannon's broader mission to illuminate the lived experience of the colonial period beyond the corridors of political power. His prose is accessible yet authoritative, weaving together the grand sweep of national history with the deeply personal textures of everyday rural life. Thematically rich in its treatment of class, land ownership, and the contested relationship between settlers and the environment, Life in the Country raises urgent questions about the foundations upon which modern Australia was built — questions whose echoes resonate long after the final page is turned.