Struggle Country – Contents

List of figures and tables

Introduction — Graeme Davison

1. Country Life: The rise and decline of an Australian idea — Graeme Davison

2. Rural womanhood and the ‘embellishment’ of rural life in urban Australia — Kate Murphy

3. History and memory in Australia’s wheatlands — Joy McCann

4. Local history and decline in country Victoria — Helen Doyle

5. The river and the town — Jill Tacon

6. Closer settlement in Queensland: The rise and decline of the agrarian dream, 1860s–1960s — David Cameron

7. Listening in to The Lawsons: Radio crosses the urban-rural divide — Megan Blair

8. The Rocky Gully exodus — Jaime Phillips

9. The politics of rural nostalgia between the wars — Marc Brodie

10. The dying town syndrome: A survey of urban development in the Western District of Victoria, 1890–1930 — Monica Keneley

Afterword: Return to ‘countrymindedness’ — Don Aitkin