The Oxford History of Australia: 1860-1900, Glad, Confident morningLate 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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One was the idea of progress, so skilfully delineated in its British context by J. B.
Bury in 1920, “an idea so eminently colonial', according to William Westgarth who
described the colonies as 'a sort of apotheosis of progress'." The second ...
One was the idea of progress, so skilfully delineated in its British context by J. B.
Bury in 1920, “an idea so eminently colonial', according to William Westgarth who
described the colonies as 'a sort of apotheosis of progress'." The second ...
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the idea of federation and the prospect of a 'nation for a continent and a continent
for a nation', gave fresh inspiration. “She is not yet', sighed poet James Brunton
Stephens in 1877. Six years later he was urging the “Sisters Seven' (for New ...
the idea of federation and the prospect of a 'nation for a continent and a continent
for a nation', gave fresh inspiration. “She is not yet', sighed poet James Brunton
Stephens in 1877. Six years later he was urging the “Sisters Seven' (for New ...
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It might be thought that a belief in God should be added to the idea of progress
and the importance of British civilization as one of the basic assumptions of
Australian society in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, this
would ...
It might be thought that a belief in God should be added to the idea of progress
and the importance of British civilization as one of the basic assumptions of
Australian society in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, this
would ...
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| Title | The Oxford History of Australia: 1860-1900, Glad, Confident morning Volume 3 of The Oxford History of Australia, Geoffrey Bolton |
| Author | Beverley Kingston |
| Editors | Geoffrey Bolton, Beverley Kingston |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0195546113, 9780195546118 |
| Length | 368 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General |
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