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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... Investment Com- pany , one of many investment and management agencies operating in the pastoral industry in eastern Australia in the late nineteenth century , show that during the 1860s and 1870s they were returning 20 or 25 per cent ...
... Investment Com- pany , one of many investment and management agencies operating in the pastoral industry in eastern Australia in the late nineteenth century , show that during the 1860s and 1870s they were returning 20 or 25 per cent ...
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... investment as a guarantee of their own prospects . They may even have believed that British investors were carrying a heavier share of the risk in the least likely ventures . This may not have been so . One of the many pieces of ...
... investment as a guarantee of their own prospects . They may even have believed that British investors were carrying a heavier share of the risk in the least likely ventures . This may not have been so . One of the many pieces of ...
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... Investment in Australian 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 ...
... Investment in Australian 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 ...
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