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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... farming land became more scarce , water was as gold , priming the pumps of optimism . During the 1860s and 1870s pioneer farmers mirrored the pastoral settlement of earlier decades . They struggled with unsuitable seed and plant ...
... farming land became more scarce , water was as gold , priming the pumps of optimism . During the 1860s and 1870s pioneer farmers mirrored the pastoral settlement of earlier decades . They struggled with unsuitable seed and plant ...
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... farming conditions in the Old World , those in Australia were harsh but open to change . Clever or knowledgeable farmers survived . Successful farmers needed the skills of smart businessmen . Though farming seemed a link with ...
... farming conditions in the Old World , those in Australia were harsh but open to change . Clever or knowledgeable farmers survived . Successful farmers needed the skills of smart businessmen . Though farming seemed a link with ...
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... farmer and his family , but increasingly also of city folk who were learning to consume the wealth earned by rural exports . Farming , even pre- cariously , conferred a sense of independence and self - worth which the urban working ...
... farmer and his family , but increasingly also of city folk who were learning to consume the wealth earned by rural exports . Farming , even pre- cariously , conferred a sense of independence and self - worth which the urban working ...
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