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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... Pacific High Commission were seen as the first steps toward a stronger British presence and through it , greater Australian influence in the south Pacific . Writing to her father Henry Parkes , mainly about family and money matters on ...
... Pacific High Commission were seen as the first steps toward a stronger British presence and through it , greater Australian influence in the south Pacific . Writing to her father Henry Parkes , mainly about family and money matters on ...
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... Pacific than Victor- ia . Furthermore her free - trade policy caused her to welcome the presence and strength of the ... Pacific . 142 Queensland was drawn towards the Victorian position through her dependence on Pacific island labour ...
... Pacific than Victor- ia . Furthermore her free - trade policy caused her to welcome the presence and strength of the ... Pacific . 142 Queensland was drawn towards the Victorian position through her dependence on Pacific island labour ...
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... Pacific : The Expansionist Era 1820–1920 , MUP , Melbourne , 1980 , chaps 2 and 3 . 134 McMinn , A Constitutional History of Australia , p . 90 . 135 ibid . , p . 84 ; see also B. A. Knox , ' Imperial Consequences of Consti- tutional ...
... Pacific : The Expansionist Era 1820–1920 , MUP , Melbourne , 1980 , chaps 2 and 3 . 134 McMinn , A Constitutional History of Australia , p . 90 . 135 ibid . , p . 84 ; see also B. A. Knox , ' Imperial Consequences of Consti- tutional ...
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