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 52
... thought necessary for the amount of work they did . ' Though the excess may be looked upon as waste , ' wrote Coghlan , ' it is none the less evidence of the wealth of the people whose circumstances permit them to indulge in it.'125 As ...
... thought necessary for the amount of work they did . ' Though the excess may be looked upon as waste , ' wrote Coghlan , ' it is none the less evidence of the wealth of the people whose circumstances permit them to indulge in it.'125 As ...
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... thought they were working harder at the end of the century than they had a decade earlier to maintain their purchasing power and standard of living , they were right . There was some bitterness , a sense of betrayal at the loss of ...
... thought they were working harder at the end of the century than they had a decade earlier to maintain their purchasing power and standard of living , they were right . There was some bitterness , a sense of betrayal at the loss of ...
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... thought to be immoral . 118 In her 1888 story , ' A Week in the Future ' , which had affinities with William Morris's News from Nowhere or Samuel Butler's Erewhon , Spence sketched a society in which ' Woman is no longer degraded as the ...
... thought to be immoral . 118 In her 1888 story , ' A Week in the Future ' , which had affinities with William Morris's News from Nowhere or Samuel Butler's Erewhon , Spence sketched a society in which ' Woman is no longer degraded as the ...
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