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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... economy , or by what princi- ples it was managed , so long as such management was both steady and reliable . The orthodox economic view of the second half of the nineteenth century is of a period of steady growth followed by collapse in ...
... economy , or by what princi- ples it was managed , so long as such management was both steady and reliable . The orthodox economic view of the second half of the nineteenth century is of a period of steady growth followed by collapse in ...
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... economic development , but for which accept- able outlets were diminishing . The successful innovations in Australian society in the second half of the nineteenth century were possible because of economic growth and the absence of ...
... economic development , but for which accept- able outlets were diminishing . The successful innovations in Australian society in the second half of the nineteenth century were possible because of economic growth and the absence of ...
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... Economic Development 1861– 1900 , CUP , Cambridge , 1964 , pp . 215-17 . 78 R. V. Jackson , Australian Economic Development in the Nineteenth Cen- tury , ĂNU Press , Canberra , 1977 , p . 121 . 79 ibid . , p . 128 . 80 Butlin ...
... Economic Development 1861– 1900 , CUP , Cambridge , 1964 , pp . 215-17 . 78 R. V. Jackson , Australian Economic Development in the Nineteenth Cen- tury , ĂNU Press , Canberra , 1977 , p . 121 . 79 ibid . , p . 128 . 80 Butlin ...
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