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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... late 1880s , and , during the suc- ceeding decade affecting the whole of the continent , pressed unbearably on overstocked runs , ruined natural herbage and makeshift watering facilities . The obvious cost was seen in abandoned ...
... late 1880s , and , during the suc- ceeding decade affecting the whole of the continent , pressed unbearably on overstocked runs , ruined natural herbage and makeshift watering facilities . The obvious cost was seen in abandoned ...
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... late nineteenth- century Australia was to be a disadvantaged person , legally , politically , economically , socially . It was not impossible to ' overlook ' an Aboriginal mother or grandmother in a society which traced descent through ...
... late nineteenth- century Australia was to be a disadvantaged person , legally , politically , economically , socially . It was not impossible to ' overlook ' an Aboriginal mother or grandmother in a society which traced descent through ...
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... late in the century had birthplaces in South Australia . 16 ) On that basis , Tasmania should have shown a similar marriage pattern . That it doesn't may be because until the end of the century there were many ageing male convicts in ...
... late in the century had birthplaces in South Australia . 16 ) On that basis , Tasmania should have shown a similar marriage pattern . That it doesn't may be because until the end of the century there were many ageing male convicts in ...
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