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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... farmers too placed great importance on access to virgin land . Like the early squatters , farmers thought of moving farther out when farms seemed crowded or soil exhausted . Like the squatters they paid too little attention to ...
... farmers too placed great importance on access to virgin land . Like the early squatters , farmers thought of moving farther out when farms seemed crowded or soil exhausted . Like the squatters they paid too little attention to ...
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... farmers and their labourers in the Old World . Defying expectations of the 1860s that a class of yeoman farmers would unsettle the squatters and provide conser- vative political ballast , farmers themselves became a more demanding and ...
... farmers and their labourers in the Old World . Defying expectations of the 1860s that a class of yeoman farmers would unsettle the squatters and provide conser- vative political ballast , farmers themselves became a more demanding and ...
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... farmers . Despite the growth of farmers ' organizations , there were few farmers in the New South Wales parliament before 1900.23 Rural electorates centred on towns like Orange or Armidale were more likely to return a local journalist ...
... farmers . Despite the growth of farmers ' organizations , there were few farmers in the New South Wales parliament before 1900.23 Rural electorates centred on towns like Orange or Armidale were more likely to return a local journalist ...
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