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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... American whaler , the Gazelle . In America O'Reilly and his brother Fenians began planning the rescue of the others still in Fremantle Gaol . Under cover of Perth's Easter regatta in 1876 , six Fenians escaped and were taken aboard the ...
... American whaler , the Gazelle . In America O'Reilly and his brother Fenians began planning the rescue of the others still in Fremantle Gaol . Under cover of Perth's Easter regatta in 1876 , six Fenians escaped and were taken aboard the ...
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... American press , selected for amusement as much as for news value , though this changed as the tele- graph gave greater immediacy to the meaning of news . ( The Franco - Prussian War of 1870 was fought and the treaty signed before any ...
... American press , selected for amusement as much as for news value , though this changed as the tele- graph gave greater immediacy to the meaning of news . ( The Franco - Prussian War of 1870 was fought and the treaty signed before any ...
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... American Prophet's Influence , Twayne , New York , 1962 . 109 p . iv . 110 E. H. Lane , Dawn to Dusk : Reminiscences of a Rebel , William Brooks and Co. , Brisbane , 1939 , p . 48 . 111 ibid . , p . 37 . 112 Ebbels , The Australian ...
... American Prophet's Influence , Twayne , New York , 1962 . 109 p . iv . 110 E. H. Lane , Dawn to Dusk : Reminiscences of a Rebel , William Brooks and Co. , Brisbane , 1939 , p . 48 . 111 ibid . , p . 37 . 112 Ebbels , The Australian ...
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