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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... Flinders grass . The Gulf Country , watered by all those north and westward flowing rivers which had so confused Leichhardt became ' The Plains of Promise ' . Governor Bowen , himself a participant in a small way in the plans for a ...
... Flinders grass . The Gulf Country , watered by all those north and westward flowing rivers which had so confused Leichhardt became ' The Plains of Promise ' . Governor Bowen , himself a participant in a small way in the plans for a ...
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... Flinders river grass 3 folksongs 228 , 234-5 food processing 21 Foote , Mary Hannay 216 foreign policy 240 Forrest , John 4 , 245 Forsyth , Archibald 96-7 Fox , E. Phillips 95 , 219 , 220 Franklyn , H. Mortimer 20 , 53 , 279 Frazer ...
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