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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... wives and children in Australia could do the stooping and intense cultivation which had required Negro slaves on American cotton plantations , Australian families seemed un- enthusiastic about cotton growing . 26 In any case , the ...
... wives and children in Australia could do the stooping and intense cultivation which had required Negro slaves on American cotton plantations , Australian families seemed un- enthusiastic about cotton growing . 26 In any case , the ...
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... wives and children was restricted . In Catholic families where a higher degree of personal answerability for one's spiritual condition was expected , the imposition of Protestant con- cepts of the legal and economic headship of husband ...
... wives and children was restricted . In Catholic families where a higher degree of personal answerability for one's spiritual condition was expected , the imposition of Protestant con- cepts of the legal and economic headship of husband ...
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... wives , as J. A. Froude remarked of Lady Loftus , worked as hard if not harder than their husbands to secure social advantages.9 % Audrey Tenny- son's condescending descriptions for her mother's amuse- ment at the presumptions of ...
... wives , as J. A. Froude remarked of Lady Loftus , worked as hard if not harder than their husbands to secure social advantages.9 % Audrey Tenny- son's condescending descriptions for her mother's amuse- ment at the presumptions of ...
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