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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Page 112
... immigrants able to pay their own passages . No attempts were made to regulate or restrain this flow which was steady till the 1890s . Even in the 1880s at the height of Australia's late nine- teenth - century attractiveness to immigrants ...
... immigrants able to pay their own passages . No attempts were made to regulate or restrain this flow which was steady till the 1890s . Even in the 1880s at the height of Australia's late nine- teenth - century attractiveness to immigrants ...
Page 117
... immigrants and rather like that of Victoria in the 1860s . No obvious explanation pre- sents itself for the large proportion of children in Tasmania , though the concentration of the population in farming and other rural activities may ...
... immigrants and rather like that of Victoria in the 1860s . No obvious explanation pre- sents itself for the large proportion of children in Tasmania , though the concentration of the population in farming and other rural activities may ...
Page 123
... immigrants by the native born . This weakened automatic ties with the Old World and assisted the growth of ideas and institutions based on Australian experience . In 1860 there were some families who could claim to be in their third ...
... immigrants by the native born . This weakened automatic ties with the Old World and assisted the growth of ideas and institutions based on Australian experience . In 1860 there were some families who could claim to be in their third ...
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