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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... Britain , and by the knowledge that Australian statisticians were criti- cized in Britain for their optimistic interpretations of their own material . 105 Coghlan especially was in danger of reading too much into the averages . Working ...
... Britain , and by the knowledge that Australian statisticians were criti- cized in Britain for their optimistic interpretations of their own material . 105 Coghlan especially was in danger of reading too much into the averages . Working ...
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... Britain was reluctant to permit the colonists to play with such dangerous toys as gunboats . Though they raised substantial armies , the colonial govern- ments had no legal authority over them once they left Aus- tralian shores . The ...
... Britain was reluctant to permit the colonists to play with such dangerous toys as gunboats . Though they raised substantial armies , the colonial govern- ments had no legal authority over them once they left Aus- tralian shores . The ...
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... Britain could not be taken seriously . McIlwraith had no choice but to accept Britain's alternate suggestion that the Australian colonies should raise the £ 15000 needed to pay for the grad- ual establishment of a British protectorate ...
... Britain could not be taken seriously . McIlwraith had no choice but to accept Britain's alternate suggestion that the Australian colonies should raise the £ 15000 needed to pay for the grad- ual establishment of a British protectorate ...
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