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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... railway building were the rival schemes floated during the 1870s for a north - south trans- continental line . By then it was possible to envisage a grand design , a real network of railways covering the continent . Neither of the ...
... railway building were the rival schemes floated during the 1870s for a north - south trans- continental line . By then it was possible to envisage a grand design , a real network of railways covering the continent . Neither of the ...
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... railway system were inconvenient , especially where bulky goods required trans - shipping . But the railways , with their neat , impersonal carriages , were a boon to ladies who suf- fered from seasickness , and so different from the ...
... railway system were inconvenient , especially where bulky goods required trans - shipping . But the railways , with their neat , impersonal carriages , were a boon to ladies who suf- fered from seasickness , and so different from the ...
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... railway workshops , all the thousands of super- visory and administrative jobs which resulted from govern- ment borrowing and government developmental projects in support of private enterprise . Before the 1890s there had been seasonal ...
... railway workshops , all the thousands of super- visory and administrative jobs which resulted from govern- ment borrowing and government developmental projects in support of private enterprise . Before the 1890s there had been seasonal ...
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