The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 3Late 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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For Australia as a whole , natural increase ( excess of births over deaths ) contributed more to the population growth rate than immigration in this period . However , the rate of immigration rose from 1860 until the beginning of the ...
For Australia as a whole , natural increase ( excess of births over deaths ) contributed more to the population growth rate than immigration in this period . However , the rate of immigration rose from 1860 until the beginning of the ...
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By 1901 , 77.06 per cent of the population ( of the ' immigrant races ' as the 1901 census carefully put it ) had been born in Australia . ? People with British birthplaces accounted for 18.03 per cent , Asia 1.25 per cent , 0.79 per ...
By 1901 , 77.06 per cent of the population ( of the ' immigrant races ' as the 1901 census carefully put it ) had been born in Australia . ? People with British birthplaces accounted for 18.03 per cent , Asia 1.25 per cent , 0.79 per ...
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By the end of the century , however , the age structure of the population had come to resemble the more ' normal ' patterns of England and Wales . Just over a third ( 35.12 per cent ) of the Australian population were under 15 years old ...
By the end of the century , however , the age structure of the population had come to resemble the more ' normal ' patterns of England and Wales . Just over a third ( 35.12 per cent ) of the Australian population were under 15 years old ...
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| Title | The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 3 The Oxford History of Australia, Geoffrey Bolton |
| Author | Beverley Kingston |
| Editor | Geoffrey Bolton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1988 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 4 Dec 2017 |
| ISBN | 0195546113, 9780195546118 |
| Length | 368 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General |
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