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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... University of Sydney , both thought they were more at home in the mental world of the French and German symbolists than in the Australia of John Shaw Neilson or Henry Lawson . For them , as for many of the educated or would - be ...
... University of Sydney , both thought they were more at home in the mental world of the French and German symbolists than in the Australia of John Shaw Neilson or Henry Lawson . For them , as for many of the educated or would - be ...
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... university educa- tion were luxuries when educational resources were already so thinly stretched . Most of the need for professional skills and higher education was supplied by continuing im- migration.93 Education at a British university ...
... university educa- tion were luxuries when educational resources were already so thinly stretched . Most of the need for professional skills and higher education was supplied by continuing im- migration.93 Education at a British university ...
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... University Australian and New Zealand Book Company Alternative Publishing Cooperative Limited Cambridge University Press Historical Studies Journal of Industrial Relations Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Journal of ...
... University Australian and New Zealand Book Company Alternative Publishing Cooperative Limited Cambridge University Press Historical Studies Journal of Industrial Relations Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Journal of ...
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