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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... Adelaide . The hardest part of the bargain proved to be surveying land to meet the sales . Real knowledge came later . It was still assumed in Adelaide in the late 1860s that sheep would make the first tracks across the Northern ...
... Adelaide . The hardest part of the bargain proved to be surveying land to meet the sales . Real knowledge came later . It was still assumed in Adelaide in the late 1860s that sheep would make the first tracks across the Northern ...
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... Adelaide , inˆ the Riverina where South Australian Germans had moved in search of new farm land , and in southern ... Adelaide , the other in Tanunda . Friedrich Basedow , owner of the Tanunda Deutsche Zeitung , acquired his Adelaide ...
... Adelaide , inˆ the Riverina where South Australian Germans had moved in search of new farm land , and in southern ... Adelaide , the other in Tanunda . Friedrich Basedow , owner of the Tanunda Deutsche Zeitung , acquired his Adelaide ...
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... Adelaide 5 , 27 , 30 , 32 , 138 , 177 , 230- 1 , 291 Adelaide Hills 183 , 204 227 Adelaide Leidertafel agents general 239 agnostics 87 Agra and Mastermans Bank 40 agricultural machinery 19 agriculture 18-28 Anniversary Day 184 Anrep ...
... Adelaide 5 , 27 , 30 , 32 , 138 , 177 , 230- 1 , 291 Adelaide Hills 183 , 204 227 Adelaide Leidertafel agents general 239 agnostics 87 Agra and Mastermans Bank 40 agricultural machinery 19 agriculture 18-28 Anniversary Day 184 Anrep ...
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