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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... urban working class was striving to find . Here the farmer and the suburban homeowner had much in common , though when they saw themselves as rural landowner and urban worker , it might seem that they had nothing in com- mon at all . It ...
... urban working class was striving to find . Here the farmer and the suburban homeowner had much in common , though when they saw themselves as rural landowner and urban worker , it might seem that they had nothing in com- mon at all . It ...
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... urban workforce engaged in the building trades and / or saving for or paying off a home , it is no wonder that the building industry collapse of the early 1890s was widely felt . There were not only public buildings and houses to be ...
... urban workforce engaged in the building trades and / or saving for or paying off a home , it is no wonder that the building industry collapse of the early 1890s was widely felt . There were not only public buildings and houses to be ...
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... urban areas while men outnum- bered women in most rural districts . Contemporary obser- vers who noted the sex imbalances between urban and rural populations were most likely to perceive them in terms of different growth rates and to ...
... urban areas while men outnum- bered women in most rural districts . Contemporary obser- vers who noted the sex imbalances between urban and rural populations were most likely to perceive them in terms of different growth rates and to ...
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