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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... arrived back in Brisbane on the last day of 1859 to find the new Queensland administration still in disarray - a conjunction of the sum- mer season , Christmas festivities and the slow passage from Sydney of registers , documents and ...
... arrived back in Brisbane on the last day of 1859 to find the new Queensland administration still in disarray - a conjunction of the sum- mer season , Christmas festivities and the slow passage from Sydney of registers , documents and ...
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... arrived with the last wave of younger sons trying their hands at squatting in the colonies - the Hodgsons on the Darling Downs , 16 the Scotts in the far north at the Valley of Lagoons . 17 More came in the planned expansion of land ...
... arrived with the last wave of younger sons trying their hands at squatting in the colonies - the Hodgsons on the Darling Downs , 16 the Scotts in the far north at the Valley of Lagoons . 17 More came in the planned expansion of land ...
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... arrived the next year to fill the position and he was able to gather a strong group of local performers and students , thus laying the foundations for the conservatorium which emerged at the end of the century , also supported by Elder ...
... arrived the next year to fill the position and he was able to gather a strong group of local performers and students , thus laying the foundations for the conservatorium which emerged at the end of the century , also supported by Elder ...
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