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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In Australia , railways defied distance as well as climate , spreading a thin web of
settlement to places which were ... Symbolic of the hope invested in railway
building were the rival schemes floated during the 1870s for a north - south ...
In Australia , railways defied distance as well as climate , spreading a thin web of
settlement to places which were ... Symbolic of the hope invested in railway
building were the rival schemes floated during the 1870s for a north - south ...
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Breaks of gauge and missing links in the railway system were inconvenient ,
especially where bulky goods required trans ... But the railways , with their neat ,
impersonal carriages , were a boon to ladies who suffered from seasickness ,
and so ...
Breaks of gauge and missing links in the railway system were inconvenient ,
especially where bulky goods required trans ... But the railways , with their neat ,
impersonal carriages , were a boon to ladies who suffered from seasickness ,
and so ...
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But because of the pattern of investment , increasingly the work was government
work , government buildings , railway workshops , all the thousands of
supervisory and administrative jobs which resulted from government borrowing
and ...
But because of the pattern of investment , increasingly the work was government
work , government buildings , railway workshops , all the thousands of
supervisory and administrative jobs which resulted from government borrowing
and ...
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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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