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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... perhaps the chief aim of modern social legislation . 122 Before the 1890s Australian society set high standards for individual self - sufficiency , at least for men , and took a fairly harsh view of those who failed to meet them . The ...
... perhaps the chief aim of modern social legislation . 122 Before the 1890s Australian society set high standards for individual self - sufficiency , at least for men , and took a fairly harsh view of those who failed to meet them . The ...
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... perhaps because they had not enough wisdom to drink moderately . The larrikin element is particularly prominent on these occasions , and sometimes it creates disorders which the police cannot handle . But nothing can give the foreigner ...
... perhaps because they had not enough wisdom to drink moderately . The larrikin element is particularly prominent on these occasions , and sometimes it creates disorders which the police cannot handle . But nothing can give the foreigner ...
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... perhaps not a good example . But another play , the Garnet Walch - Alfred Dam- pier melodrama , The Scout , was seen by a total of 31 075 peo- ple at the Alexandra Theatre in Melbourne during a period of twelve nights in 1891.149 The ...
... perhaps not a good example . But another play , the Garnet Walch - Alfred Dam- pier melodrama , The Scout , was seen by a total of 31 075 peo- ple at the Alexandra Theatre in Melbourne during a period of twelve nights in 1891.149 The ...
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