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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... sport or war , for the energy and aggressiveness of healthy and vigorous people , but in this period sex was rather more dangerous than sport , at least for the female participants , and more probable than war . Legislation failed to ...
... sport or war , for the energy and aggressiveness of healthy and vigorous people , but in this period sex was rather more dangerous than sport , at least for the female participants , and more probable than war . Legislation failed to ...
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... sport in the later part of the nineteenth century . They stress egalitarianism , national maturity , cohesiveness , pride . Other meanings are less inspiring . Organized sport clearly fostered Australian con- formity and discouraged ...
... sport in the later part of the nineteenth century . They stress egalitarianism , national maturity , cohesiveness , pride . Other meanings are less inspiring . Organized sport clearly fostered Australian con- formity and discouraged ...
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... Sport and Society 1890-1940 : A foray ' , in C. T. Stannage ( ed . ) , A New History of Western Australia , UWA ... Sporting History , UQP , St Lucia , 1979 , pp . 148-79 . 54 Philip Derriman , ' Death in Orange : The strange case of ...
... Sport and Society 1890-1940 : A foray ' , in C. T. Stannage ( ed . ) , A New History of Western Australia , UWA ... Sporting History , UQP , St Lucia , 1979 , pp . 148-79 . 54 Philip Derriman , ' Death in Orange : The strange case of ...
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