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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... problems of finding suitable disease- resistant but reasonably high - yielding varieties in the east coast sugar industry . Highly developed West Indian canes began to fail , and the prospects for the industry , intensified by labour ...
... problems of finding suitable disease- resistant but reasonably high - yielding varieties in the east coast sugar industry . Highly developed West Indian canes began to fail , and the prospects for the industry , intensified by labour ...
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... problems that were shared because they were specific to Australia . ' Australia ' , Mary McKillop told the Pope ... problems confronting the churches , often therefore misperceiving the particular problems 66 THE OXFORD HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA.
... problems that were shared because they were specific to Australia . ' Australia ' , Mary McKillop told the Pope ... problems confronting the churches , often therefore misperceiving the particular problems 66 THE OXFORD HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA.
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... problems the churches were facing . The Church of England in Victoria and South Australia had achieved some measure of indepen- dence from Britain and a viable legal status in the 1850s . Fear of being implicated in problems beyond its ...
... problems the churches were facing . The Church of England in Victoria and South Australia had achieved some measure of indepen- dence from Britain and a viable legal status in the 1850s . Fear of being implicated in problems beyond its ...
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