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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Page 117
... immigrants and rather like that of Victoria in the 1860s . No obvious explanation pre- sents itself for the large proportion of children in Tasmania , though the concentration of the population in farming and other rural activities may ...
... immigrants and rather like that of Victoria in the 1860s . No obvious explanation pre- sents itself for the large proportion of children in Tasmania , though the concentration of the population in farming and other rural activities may ...
Page 124
... immigrants and the children of earlier Irish immigrants had to contend with a popular image of the Irish based on convict and peasant origins and assumed to be Catholic . In fact , about 30 per cent of Irish immigrants came from ...
... immigrants and the children of earlier Irish immigrants had to contend with a popular image of the Irish based on convict and peasant origins and assumed to be Catholic . In fact , about 30 per cent of Irish immigrants came from ...
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... immigrants , a recognizable form of educated English was heard . Only its idioms were some- times obviously Australian . This was more noticeable with men than with women , for whom ' correct ' English was most important as an indicator ...
... immigrants , a recognizable form of educated English was heard . Only its idioms were some- times obviously Australian . This was more noticeable with men than with women , for whom ' correct ' English was most important as an indicator ...
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