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 119
... period when it might have been presumed to be much higher . Even so , marriage rates for women before 1890 were much higher in Australia than in Britain during the same period . For men , however , they were much lower . Whereas only 3 ...
... period when it might have been presumed to be much higher . Even so , marriage rates for women before 1890 were much higher in Australia than in Britain during the same period . For men , however , they were much lower . Whereas only 3 ...
Page 124
... period in being English in Australia or hav- ing an English parent . An Irish background or an Irish name , however , might be something altogether different . The proportion of colonists born in Ireland was already beginning to decline ...
... period in being English in Australia or hav- ing an English parent . An Irish background or an Irish name , however , might be something altogether different . The proportion of colonists born in Ireland was already beginning to decline ...
Page 236
... period disappointing , provincial , imitative . Never- theless , the institutional foundations to channel culture re- morselessly into ' high ' forms had been well and truly laid . 192 Nor can there be much doubt that it was a creative ...
... period disappointing , provincial , imitative . Never- theless , the institutional foundations to channel culture re- morselessly into ' high ' forms had been well and truly laid . 192 Nor can there be much doubt that it was a creative ...
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