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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... universities were most respected when they aided the solution of practical problems , as when Professor David Orme Masson ... University of Sydney , contributed ac- counts of his study - leave trips to the Sydney Morning Herald , Baldwin ...
... universities were most respected when they aided the solution of practical problems , as when Professor David Orme Masson ... University of Sydney , contributed ac- counts of his study - leave trips to the Sydney Morning Herald , Baldwin ...
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... university as a centre for research was barely understood . As well , universities were virtually excluded from debate on the great question of the day , the future of Christianity , by their official non - sectarianism . Nor were ...
... university as a centre for research was barely understood . As well , universities were virtually excluded from debate on the great question of the day , the future of Christianity , by their official non - sectarianism . Nor were ...
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... universities should be able to help , but even he , the editor of Plato's Philebus , spent most of his time and effort ... university buildings and classic forms for museums and galleries indicated that an inspira- tional message was ...
... universities should be able to help , but even he , the editor of Plato's Philebus , spent most of his time and effort ... university buildings and classic forms for museums and galleries indicated that an inspira- tional message was ...
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