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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... Commonwealth and Edward Aveling's simplified edition of volume 1 of Marx's Capital . 113 Conditions in Australia in the 1890s came more to resem- ble the conditions in Britain and the USA upon which socialist theory was based and from ...
... Commonwealth and Edward Aveling's simplified edition of volume 1 of Marx's Capital . 113 Conditions in Australia in the 1890s came more to resem- ble the conditions in Britain and the USA upon which socialist theory was based and from ...
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... Commonwealth of Australia , Official Year Book , 1901-7 , pp . 142–64 . 7 ibid . , p . 145 . 8 All figures from the 1901 UK Census quoted Commonwealth of Australia , Official Year Book , 1901–8 , p . 155 . 9 W. H. Hall , The ...
... Commonwealth of Australia , Official Year Book , 1901-7 , pp . 142–64 . 7 ibid . , p . 145 . 8 All figures from the 1901 UK Census quoted Commonwealth of Australia , Official Year Book , 1901–8 , p . 155 . 9 W. H. Hall , The ...
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... Commonwealth of Australia , Official Year Book , 1901–7 , pp . 199 , 750 . 95 Helen Jones , Nothing Seemed Impossible : Women's Education and Social Change in South Australia 1875-1915 , UQP , St Lucia , 1985 ; Alison Mackinnon ...
... Commonwealth of Australia , Official Year Book , 1901–7 , pp . 199 , 750 . 95 Helen Jones , Nothing Seemed Impossible : Women's Education and Social Change in South Australia 1875-1915 , UQP , St Lucia , 1985 ; Alison Mackinnon ...
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