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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Page 54
If the workers thought they were working harder at the end of the century than
they had a decade earlier to maintain their purchasing power and standard of
living , they were right . There was some bitterness , a sense of betrayal at the
loss of ...
If the workers thought they were working harder at the end of the century than
they had a decade earlier to maintain their purchasing power and standard of
living , they were right . There was some bitterness , a sense of betrayal at the
loss of ...
Page 60
Christian missionaries might pity them as people living in ignorance of the Word
of God and therefore in need of salvation , but anthropology turned them into
living fossils . Even so , the discovery of more colourful and incomprehensibly ...
Christian missionaries might pity them as people living in ignorance of the Word
of God and therefore in need of salvation , but anthropology turned them into
living fossils . Even so , the discovery of more colourful and incomprehensibly ...
Page 109
Obviously if they were living on missions or reserves , it was a fairly simple matter
to count them and their cost . Thus in 1861 , 6985 Aborigines were officially
recognized in the statistics , but clearly there were large numbers living a
traditional ...
Obviously if they were living on missions or reserves , it was a fairly simple matter
to count them and their cost . Thus in 1861 , 6985 Aborigines were officially
recognized in the statistics , but clearly there were large numbers living a
traditional ...
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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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