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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... Catholic church was the obvious representative of traditional church authority . Catholicism in the 1860s was perceived as Romish and sinister . The later Irish version was less interesting though more troublesome . Events such as the ...
... Catholic church was the obvious representative of traditional church authority . Catholicism in the 1860s was perceived as Romish and sinister . The later Irish version was less interesting though more troublesome . Events such as the ...
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... Catholic families where a higher degree of personal answerability for one's spiritual condition was expected , the imposition of Protestant con- cepts of the legal and economic headship of husband and father may have been subtly ...
... Catholic families where a higher degree of personal answerability for one's spiritual condition was expected , the imposition of Protestant con- cepts of the legal and economic headship of husband and father may have been subtly ...
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... Catholic Priesthood 1835-1915 , Catholic Theological Faculty , Sydney , 1977 , p . 70 . 55 John N. Molony , An Architect of Freedom : John Hubert Plunkett in New South Wales 1832–1869 , ANU Press , Canberra , 1973 , pp . 191-2 ; also ...
... Catholic Priesthood 1835-1915 , Catholic Theological Faculty , Sydney , 1977 , p . 70 . 55 John N. Molony , An Architect of Freedom : John Hubert Plunkett in New South Wales 1832–1869 , ANU Press , Canberra , 1973 , pp . 191-2 ; also ...
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