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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... convict origins in the second half of the nineteenth century than others - Western Australia , for example , was still taking convicts from Britain till 1868. The British government continued to maintain the penal settle- ment at Port ...
... convict origins in the second half of the nineteenth century than others - Western Australia , for example , was still taking convicts from Britain till 1868. The British government continued to maintain the penal settle- ment at Port ...
Page 159
... convicts . 101 The Tasmanian convicts were more pathetic and hapless than those arriving in Western Australia . The main Tasma- nian legacy from the convict system was poverty , both indi- vidual and social , for no society could easily ...
... convicts . 101 The Tasmanian convicts were more pathetic and hapless than those arriving in Western Australia . The main Tasma- nian legacy from the convict system was poverty , both indi- vidual and social , for no society could easily ...
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... convicts left off . The ' taste for slavery which has not yet lost its relish ' lin- gered most obviously in the west . 106 In Queensland it was a more insidious thing . There , in theory , the convict system had come to an end in 1840 ...
... convicts left off . The ' taste for slavery which has not yet lost its relish ' lin- gered most obviously in the west . 106 In Queensland it was a more insidious thing . There , in theory , the convict system had come to an end in 1840 ...
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