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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... tralia an executive council , only partially elected , continued to advise the governor and the colonial office until 1890 when there seemed enough suitable voters to hold elections for a representative legislative assembly . However ...
... tralia an executive council , only partially elected , continued to advise the governor and the colonial office until 1890 when there seemed enough suitable voters to hold elections for a representative legislative assembly . However ...
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... tralia Policy as formulated in legislation of 1901,58 though the restrictions placed on the Chinese were not different from those applied to other groups whose colour or sex made them easy targets for exclusion . Australia's treatment ...
... tralia Policy as formulated in legislation of 1901,58 though the restrictions placed on the Chinese were not different from those applied to other groups whose colour or sex made them easy targets for exclusion . Australia's treatment ...
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... tralia the weeklies filling their columns with escapist fantasy were the best market for stories and short stories . Marcus Clarke's For the Term of his Natural Life was written as a serial for the Australian Journal . The story ran for ...
... tralia the weeklies filling their columns with escapist fantasy were the best market for stories and short stories . Marcus Clarke's For the Term of his Natural Life was written as a serial for the Australian Journal . The story ran for ...
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