The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 3Late nineteenth-century Australia claimed one of the world's highest standards of living and was seen as one of the most successful examples of the transplantation of British culture. Yet beneath the surface prosperity, there lay a great deal of uncertainty and conflict, including clashes among churches, the crash of the 1890s, pressure for federation, and the challenging of traditional views of education, women's roles, and the family. This volume takes a skeptical look at many of the common perceptions of Australia in the Victorian era, concentrating on human values rather than on the rhetoric of national achievement. |
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... civilization over what had become a quietly desperate com- mitment to overinvestment in fantasy.21 Western Australia's most lucrative industries in the late 1880s after wool and sheep , were exotic : pearls and pearlshell found along ...
... civilization over what had become a quietly desperate com- mitment to overinvestment in fantasy.21 Western Australia's most lucrative industries in the late 1880s after wool and sheep , were exotic : pearls and pearlshell found along ...
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... civilization was basically British . There were plenty who did not like Britain , but they did not envisage a world in which Britain was not a powerful presence , nor British values the standard of behaviour . The very existence of the ...
... civilization was basically British . There were plenty who did not like Britain , but they did not envisage a world in which Britain was not a powerful presence , nor British values the standard of behaviour . The very existence of the ...
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... civilization , posed new difficulties for the understand- ing and control of those primitive instincts . Anxiety about the quality of the population , the purity of the race , the perfect fragility of civilization were not unique to ...
... civilization , posed new difficulties for the understand- ing and control of those primitive instincts . Anxiety about the quality of the population , the purity of the race , the perfect fragility of civilization were not unique to ...
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Aborigines Adelaide Alfred Deakin Austra Australian colonies became began bourne Brisbane Britain British building Canberra Catholic cent chap Chinese Christian church civilization coal convict culture early economic electors Eric Irvin especially farmers farming federation female George Higinbotham girls groups growth Henry Henry Lawson History houses ibid immigrants industry Irish labour land late nineteenth century legislation London male Marcus Clarke marriage married Melbourne ment Michael Davitt moral native Nellie Stewart Northern Territory organized Pacific parliament pastoral period political population Press produced Queensland railway religion responsibility River rural schools seemed settlement settlers sexual social society South Australia South Wales sport squatters St Lucia Sydney Tasmania thought tion towns trade traditional tralia union urban Victoria votes wages wealth Western Australia wives women wool workers young