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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... decade was exporting wheat and flour . In the other colonies , despite the apparent failure of free selection legislation , agriculture continued to expand in accordance with the growth of markets , especially local ones , and of ...
... decade was exporting wheat and flour . In the other colonies , despite the apparent failure of free selection legislation , agriculture continued to expand in accordance with the growth of markets , especially local ones , and of ...
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... decades . Women who were using contraception in the late nineteenth century were usually seeking to limit a family which was already too large for their resources . The unromantically efficient notion of family planning belongs properly ...
... decades . Women who were using contraception in the late nineteenth century were usually seeking to limit a family which was already too large for their resources . The unromantically efficient notion of family planning belongs properly ...
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... decades of the nineteenth century however , knowledge of sexuality was being transformed very slowly and untidily from its vague and haphazard traditional state to its modern , systematic and proto - scientific version . We can see ...
... decades of the nineteenth century however , knowledge of sexuality was being transformed very slowly and untidily from its vague and haphazard traditional state to its modern , systematic and proto - scientific version . We can see ...
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