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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We gave to our Australian colonies a noble dowry , ' wrote C . A . Dilke , ' in
handing over to them all their lands . ' 52 The land was not only a ' noble dowry
on which , as we have seen , the colonists borrowed extravagantly . Since its
original ...
We gave to our Australian colonies a noble dowry , ' wrote C . A . Dilke , ' in
handing over to them all their lands . ' 52 The land was not only a ' noble dowry
on which , as we have seen , the colonists borrowed extravagantly . Since its
original ...
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general way by the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield , by the need to maintain a
balance between the price of land and the kind of settlement that price produced .
By the 1880s , priorities were changing . Karl Marx ' s prediction of the 1850s ...
general way by the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield , by the need to maintain a
balance between the price of land and the kind of settlement that price produced .
By the 1880s , priorities were changing . Karl Marx ' s prediction of the 1850s ...
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In practice the aspirations of the land reformers of the 1860s for free selection
were really worked out in the suburban subdivisions of the 1870s and 1880s .
The Australian dream of the 1860s , a small farm in a fertile valley , by the 1880s
was ...
In practice the aspirations of the land reformers of the 1860s for free selection
were really worked out in the suburban subdivisions of the 1870s and 1880s .
The Australian dream of the 1860s , a small farm in a fertile valley , by the 1880s
was ...
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| Title | The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 3 The Oxford History of Australia, Geoffrey Bolton |
| Author | Beverley Kingston |
| Editors | Geoffrey Bolton, Beverley Kingston |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Sep 2009 |
| ISBN | 0195546113, 9780195546118 |
| Length | 368 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General |
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