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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Beverley Kingston Geoffrey Bolton. George Higinbotham , spoke ( in 1883 at the invitation of Charles Strong ) to the Scots Church Literary Society on ' Sci- ence and Religion ' , the growing gulf between ' institutional- ised religion ...
Beverley Kingston Geoffrey Bolton. George Higinbotham , spoke ( in 1883 at the invitation of Charles Strong ) to the Scots Church Literary Society on ' Sci- ence and Religion ' , the growing gulf between ' institutional- ised religion ...
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... George Higinbotham's uncompromising anti - imperialism remained a source of re- publican inspiration . Tasmanian lawyer Andrew Inglis Clark , an admirer of Higinbotham , brought his own pro - American pro - republican views to bear on ...
... George Higinbotham's uncompromising anti - imperialism remained a source of re- publican inspiration . Tasmanian lawyer Andrew Inglis Clark , an admirer of Higinbotham , brought his own pro - American pro - republican views to bear on ...
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... general of the day , George Higinbotham indignant- ly suggested , namely , that ' the million and a half Englishmen who inhabit these colonies , and who during the last fifteen years have believed they possessed self - government , have ...
... general of the day , George Higinbotham indignant- ly suggested , namely , that ' the million and a half Englishmen who inhabit these colonies , and who during the last fifteen years have believed they possessed self - government , have ...
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