The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 3Geoffrey Bolton Late 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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... Austra- lia , with the difference in age between husbands and wives the lowest of all the colonies , both men and women had justifiably good expectations , not only of marrying , but of marrying someone of much the same age , background ...
... Austra- lia , with the difference in age between husbands and wives the lowest of all the colonies , both men and women had justifiably good expectations , not only of marrying , but of marrying someone of much the same age , background ...
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... Austra- lia's 354.124 New South Wales seemed heavily policed with the number of police per head rising towards the end of the century . Everywhere police fulfilled a variety of public service functions such as collecting statistics ...
... Austra- lia's 354.124 New South Wales seemed heavily policed with the number of police per head rising towards the end of the century . Everywhere police fulfilled a variety of public service functions such as collecting statistics ...
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... Austra- lian setting , often involving race war or war to defend the Empire . In George Darrell's immensely popular play , The Forlorn Hope , first performed on 26 December 1879 in Mel- bourne , an Australian contingent defended the ...
... Austra- lian setting , often involving race war or war to defend the Empire . In George Darrell's immensely popular play , The Forlorn Hope , first performed on 26 December 1879 in Mel- bourne , an Australian contingent defended the ...
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