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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... Western Australia's crime rate was seven times higher than South Australia's ; 40 per cent of cases in the Western Australian supreme court between 1880 and 1890 involved ex - convicts . 101 The Tasmanian convicts were more pathetic and ...
... Western Australia's crime rate was seven times higher than South Australia's ; 40 per cent of cases in the Western Australian supreme court between 1880 and 1890 involved ex - convicts . 101 The Tasmanian convicts were more pathetic and ...
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... Australia where the stigma of convictism was resisted and resented . Until the turn of the century most passenger shipping called only at Albany in Western Australia , thus effectively isolating Perth and Fremantle . All male passengers ...
... Australia where the stigma of convictism was resisted and resented . Until the turn of the century most passenger shipping called only at Albany in Western Australia , thus effectively isolating Perth and Fremantle . All male passengers ...
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... Western Australia's feeble economy during the following twenty - five years . Western Australia itself was large enough to accommodate , even to lose its former convicts , but no society could easily accommodate the accompanying habits ...
... Western Australia's feeble economy during the following twenty - five years . Western Australia itself was large enough to accommodate , even to lose its former convicts , but no society could easily accommodate the accompanying habits ...
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