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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... building industry and the production of building materials employed about one - third of the Vic- torian male workforce in the 1860s . Although the relative proportions of building and construction to other forms of manufacturing ...
... building industry and the production of building materials employed about one - third of the Vic- torian male workforce in the 1860s . Although the relative proportions of building and construction to other forms of manufacturing ...
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... building projects , their fascinat- ing modernity , their need for labour , and stimulus to all kinds of other services , and the willingness of colonial gov- ernments and overseas investors to put money into them , gave railway building ...
... building projects , their fascinat- ing modernity , their need for labour , and stimulus to all kinds of other services , and the willingness of colonial gov- ernments and overseas investors to put money into them , gave railway building ...
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... buildings and other public buildings to supply the requirements of decades to come . All this building had been necessary , obviously . The gradual accumulation and recycling of human effort which building represents had barely begun in ...
... buildings and other public buildings to supply the requirements of decades to come . All this building had been necessary , obviously . The gradual accumulation and recycling of human effort which building represents had barely begun in ...
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