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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... activity , though growth in metals and engineering was more dramatic . Processing of food , drink , and tobacco grew in proportion to the popula- tion and was more susceptible to variations in the supply of raw materials than to the ...
... activity , though growth in metals and engineering was more dramatic . Processing of food , drink , and tobacco grew in proportion to the popula- tion and was more susceptible to variations in the supply of raw materials than to the ...
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... activity was fitful , a little reminiscent of eighteenth- century industrialization in the valleys of Shropshire and Derbyshire . Maitland and Morpeth were the really thriving centres , profiting from the conjunction of easily available ...
... activity was fitful , a little reminiscent of eighteenth- century industrialization in the valleys of Shropshire and Derbyshire . Maitland and Morpeth were the really thriving centres , profiting from the conjunction of easily available ...
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... activity . By remote camp - fires , the man who could sing or play one of the portable instruments , a mouth organ , ' squeeze box ' or fiddle , even a gumleaf or Jew's harp , was an asset . Snatches of half - remembered traditional ...
... activity . By remote camp - fires , the man who could sing or play one of the portable instruments , a mouth organ , ' squeeze box ' or fiddle , even a gumleaf or Jew's harp , was an asset . Snatches of half - remembered traditional ...
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