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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... effect of keeping both clergy and laity continually busy with religious observance , though there was a danger that if or when the action ceased , so too did the meaning of religion . Those who could accept the church's prescriptions on ...
... effect of keeping both clergy and laity continually busy with religious observance , though there was a danger that if or when the action ceased , so too did the meaning of religion . Those who could accept the church's prescriptions on ...
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... effect of the unequal proportions of the sexes , exacerbated by their unequal distribution between country and city , and through the age groups , was to hold the marriage rate down in a period when it might have been presumed to be ...
... effect of the unequal proportions of the sexes , exacerbated by their unequal distribution between country and city , and through the age groups , was to hold the marriage rate down in a period when it might have been presumed to be ...
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... effect , or topicality , or to suit the expressed preference of the audience , or to accommodate actors who drank or actresses who fell pregnant . Before the audience began to tire of a programme it was time to mount a new one , or to ...
... effect , or topicality , or to suit the expressed preference of the audience , or to accommodate actors who drank or actresses who fell pregnant . Before the audience began to tire of a programme it was time to mount a new one , or to ...
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