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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... means , adapted the classical forms of British and European culture for their own purposes . The other is the gradual acceptance of environment and ordinary experience as legitimate expressions of a nation- al culture . Most culture in ...
... means , adapted the classical forms of British and European culture for their own purposes . The other is the gradual acceptance of environment and ordinary experience as legitimate expressions of a nation- al culture . Most culture in ...
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... means of communication between all progressive people in South- ern Australia'.85 He was not alone in condemning the pupil- teacher system - ' the attempt to educate children by means of boys and girls themselves uneducated ' as he ...
... means of communication between all progressive people in South- ern Australia'.85 He was not alone in condemning the pupil- teacher system - ' the attempt to educate children by means of boys and girls themselves uneducated ' as he ...
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... means of making music it had no equal in this period ; its versatility was incomparable alongside the other mechanical musical sources , the musical boxes and mechanical organs . In many ways it prefigured the gramophone in social life ...
... means of making music it had no equal in this period ; its versatility was incomparable alongside the other mechanical musical sources , the musical boxes and mechanical organs . In many ways it prefigured the gramophone in social life ...
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