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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... Chinese skills as gardeners made the difference between a bearable diet and an unbearable one . Housewives who struggled with their own kitchen gardens to supplement the monotony of meat , bread , jam and tea had more than their lowly ...
... Chinese skills as gardeners made the difference between a bearable diet and an unbearable one . Housewives who struggled with their own kitchen gardens to supplement the monotony of meat , bread , jam and tea had more than their lowly ...
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... Chinese was based on a fundamental apprecia- tion of China's capacity to overhaul Britain as a supplier of cheap ... Chinese employees than on others , and which after 1896 required that all furniture made by Chinese workmen be clearly ...
... Chinese was based on a fundamental apprecia- tion of China's capacity to overhaul Britain as a supplier of cheap ... Chinese employees than on others , and which after 1896 required that all furniture made by Chinese workmen be clearly ...
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... Chinese paranoia , fuelled by intellectual fashions in social Darwinism and eugenics as well as by more straight- forward anxiety about economic competition and the grim accumulation of legislation restricting the rights of Chinese ...
... Chinese paranoia , fuelled by intellectual fashions in social Darwinism and eugenics as well as by more straight- forward anxiety about economic competition and the grim accumulation of legislation restricting the rights of Chinese ...
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