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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half the population already adopting a relaxed attitude towards the authority of the existing churches , the Catholic church was the obvious representative of traditional church authority . Catholicism in the 1860s was perceived as ...
half the population already adopting a relaxed attitude towards the authority of the existing churches , the Catholic church was the obvious representative of traditional church authority . Catholicism in the 1860s was perceived as ...
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137 The traditional authority on sexual behaviour , the church , was losing its effectiveness . Community sanctions seemed weak . In some cases , for example , with Aboriginal men who were accused of rape , and Aboriginal women who ...
137 The traditional authority on sexual behaviour , the church , was losing its effectiveness . Community sanctions seemed weak . In some cases , for example , with Aboriginal men who were accused of rape , and Aboriginal women who ...
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Here relative British and colonial authority became acute . Put most simply , Britain was reluctant to permit the colonists to play with such dangerous toys as gunboats . Though they raised substantial armies , the colonial governments ...
Here relative British and colonial authority became acute . Put most simply , Britain was reluctant to permit the colonists to play with such dangerous toys as gunboats . Though they raised substantial armies , the colonial governments ...
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| Title | The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 3 The Oxford History of Australia, Geoffrey Bolton |
| Author | Beverley Kingston |
| Editor | Geoffrey Bolton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0195546113, 9780195546118 |
| Length | 368 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General |
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