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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... already enforced on imported ideals and cherished beliefs in those more benign southern areas . Climate was generally advanced as the reason why there were so few women among the settlers in the tropics , though it was not climate that ...
... already enforced on imported ideals and cherished beliefs in those more benign southern areas . Climate was generally advanced as the reason why there were so few women among the settlers in the tropics , though it was not climate that ...
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... already a move towards purple straw , a locally culled quick - maturing strain of red straw which could be harvested before it was attacked by rust . Rust , which was a problem even in South Australia's relatively dry summers ...
... already a move towards purple straw , a locally culled quick - maturing strain of red straw which could be harvested before it was attacked by rust . Rust , which was a problem even in South Australia's relatively dry summers ...
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... already begun to notice the increasing significance of cancer in the statistics , partly because diagnosis was becom- ing more precise , partly because there was already a decrease in the number of other diseases for which medicine had ...
... already begun to notice the increasing significance of cancer in the statistics , partly because diagnosis was becom- ing more precise , partly because there was already a decrease in the number of other diseases for which medicine had ...
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