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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... began to decline . Several generations of British wives and children had worn cotton in the interests of cheap- ness and cleanliness . Improvements in the standard of living encouraged a move to higher status woollen fabrics.27 If it ...
... began to decline . Several generations of British wives and children had worn cotton in the interests of cheap- ness and cleanliness . Improvements in the standard of living encouraged a move to higher status woollen fabrics.27 If it ...
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... began to decline relative to area under cultivation in the 1880s . English seed varieties did not acclimatize satisfac- torily . An inquiry into diseases in cereals growing in South Australia in 1868-69 revealed that although lammas ...
... began to decline relative to area under cultivation in the 1880s . English seed varieties did not acclimatize satisfac- torily . An inquiry into diseases in cereals growing in South Australia in 1868-69 revealed that although lammas ...
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... began working as soon as they were able . As Margaret Barbalet has remarked , ' Work in itself was not thought to be degrading or a hardship to children.'70 Girls of four and five were set to ' watch ' a baby or ' help ' some not ...
... began working as soon as they were able . As Margaret Barbalet has remarked , ' Work in itself was not thought to be degrading or a hardship to children.'70 Girls of four and five were set to ' watch ' a baby or ' help ' some not ...
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