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 82
... Irish version was less interesting though more troublesome . Events such as the tour of the Redmond brothers in 1883 to raise money for Fenianism . aroused noisy demonstrations and rabid prose which were more about the threat of Irish ...
... Irish version was less interesting though more troublesome . Events such as the tour of the Redmond brothers in 1883 to raise money for Fenianism . aroused noisy demonstrations and rabid prose which were more about the threat of Irish ...
Page 124
... Irish background or an Irish name , however , might be something altogether different . The proportion of colonists born in Ireland was already beginning to decline in the 1860s and by 1900 was only about 4 per cent of the whole ...
... Irish background or an Irish name , however , might be something altogether different . The proportion of colonists born in Ireland was already beginning to decline in the 1860s and by 1900 was only about 4 per cent of the whole ...
Page 126
... Irish in Australia became a useful source of funds for the home rule movement , with tours on behalf of the Irish parliamentary party by John and William Red- mond ( 1883 ) , John Dillon ( 1889 ) and Michael Davitt ( 1895 ) . The ...
... Irish in Australia became a useful source of funds for the home rule movement , with tours on behalf of the Irish parliamentary party by John and William Red- mond ( 1883 ) , John Dillon ( 1889 ) and Michael Davitt ( 1895 ) . The ...
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