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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... ment survey ship Basilisk . They were the lucky ones . 35 Local Aborigines , already notorious for the rough time they had given explorer Edmund Kennedy , sustained their reputation as determined defenders of their home in the ...
... ment survey ship Basilisk . They were the lucky ones . 35 Local Aborigines , already notorious for the rough time they had given explorer Edmund Kennedy , sustained their reputation as determined defenders of their home in the ...
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... ment based on its coalfields as well as a useful income from coal export , Victoria was forced to contemplate rigorous control of its export balances to allow for the continuing cost of coal . The brown coal deposits of Gippsland were ...
... ment based on its coalfields as well as a useful income from coal export , Victoria was forced to contemplate rigorous control of its export balances to allow for the continuing cost of coal . The brown coal deposits of Gippsland were ...
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... ment found itself practically penniless when the London banking house of Agra and Mastermans , through which a loan had been raised , failed . Later the greater certainties of the Bank of England and the London and Westminster Bank were ...
... ment found itself practically penniless when the London banking house of Agra and Mastermans , through which a loan had been raised , failed . Later the greater certainties of the Bank of England and the London and Westminster Bank were ...
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