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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... Austra- lia , and to remedy it is perhaps the chief aim of modern social legislation . 122 Before the 1890s Australian society set high standards for individual self - sufficiency , at least for men , and took a fairly harsh view of ...
... Austra- lia , and to remedy it is perhaps the chief aim of modern social legislation . 122 Before the 1890s Australian society set high standards for individual self - sufficiency , at least for men , and took a fairly harsh view of ...
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... Austra- lian colonies were non - Christian in 1860 , not counting the Aborigines . Among them the Chinese predominated . Another two in every hundred would or could not be specific about their religious position . Most of the non ...
... Austra- lian colonies were non - Christian in 1860 , not counting the Aborigines . Among them the Chinese predominated . Another two in every hundred would or could not be specific about their religious position . Most of the non ...
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... Austra- lians were in South Africa because they supported the Empire . 165 Or was it because they could not resist a fight ? EPILOGUE CENTENNIAL PARK , SYDNEY , was Henry Parkes's less 308 THE OXFORD HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA.
... Austra- lians were in South Africa because they supported the Empire . 165 Or was it because they could not resist a fight ? EPILOGUE CENTENNIAL PARK , SYDNEY , was Henry Parkes's less 308 THE OXFORD HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA.
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