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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... gold discoveries and new meat - canning technology opened up viable markets for such remote beef , but although some spectacular mineral discoveries lay in store for the future , after the 1860s it was no longer the pastoral future of ...
... gold discoveries and new meat - canning technology opened up viable markets for such remote beef , but although some spectacular mineral discoveries lay in store for the future , after the 1860s it was no longer the pastoral future of ...
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... gold and other minerals de- clined a little from their dramatic prominence in the 1850s . Gold and , for a few years in the early 1870s , tin , were , after wool , the next most valuable exports from the Australian colonies , 30 It ...
... gold and other minerals de- clined a little from their dramatic prominence in the 1850s . Gold and , for a few years in the early 1870s , tin , were , after wool , the next most valuable exports from the Australian colonies , 30 It ...
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... gold her father had found and were rewarded by the fortune which now bears their name . The entrepreneurial spirit thrived on distance and mystery . Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the persistent belief in gold in New ...
... gold her father had found and were rewarded by the fortune which now bears their name . The entrepreneurial spirit thrived on distance and mystery . Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the persistent belief in gold in New ...
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