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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... foreign ports to Australia served as a natural form of quarantine for severe infectious diseases . Even so , average life expectancy was only 51 for men and 54.8 for women at the end of the century . 19 Despite the declining death rate ...
... foreign ports to Australia served as a natural form of quarantine for severe infectious diseases . Even so , average life expectancy was only 51 for men and 54.8 for women at the end of the century . 19 Despite the declining death rate ...
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... foreign policy which was still administered from London , so much of their earnestness was expended on minor local matters . By 1860 voting by secret ballot had been adopted in all colonies ( except Western Australia where it was ...
... foreign policy which was still administered from London , so much of their earnestness was expended on minor local matters . By 1860 voting by secret ballot had been adopted in all colonies ( except Western Australia where it was ...
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... foreign sights , sounds , and customs . At the highest levels of society - in Government House circles - not to have seen some service in India was unusual . Thus Audrey Tennyson felt obliged to warn her successor , Lady North- cote ...
... foreign sights , sounds , and customs . At the highest levels of society - in Government House circles - not to have seen some service in India was unusual . Thus Audrey Tennyson felt obliged to warn her successor , Lady North- cote ...
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