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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... sheep made their way north through the coastal ranges and river systems , up the Belyando , along the Burdekin , and then toward Cape York or west into the waving acres of Flinders grass . The Gulf Country , watered by all those north ...
... sheep made their way north through the coastal ranges and river systems , up the Belyando , along the Burdekin , and then toward Cape York or west into the waving acres of Flinders grass . The Gulf Country , watered by all those north ...
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... sheep would make the first tracks across the Northern Territory as they had done elsewhere , that mineral discoveries and agri- cultural settlement would follow . " In the end it was not the sharp hooves of sheep that made a path ...
... sheep would make the first tracks across the Northern Territory as they had done elsewhere , that mineral discoveries and agri- cultural settlement would follow . " In the end it was not the sharp hooves of sheep that made a path ...
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... sheep , and wheat , though the temptation to concentrate on quantity rather than quality was evident among human population theorists as well as livestock breeders . F. W. Eggleston was in many ways a typical product of the mentality of ...
... sheep , and wheat , though the temptation to concentrate on quantity rather than quality was evident among human population theorists as well as livestock breeders . F. W. Eggleston was in many ways a typical product of the mentality of ...
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