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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... sport , class and com- munity in colonial South Australia how extensively the Ade- laide gentry sponsored , organized and contributed to the formation of early sporting clubs which were based on school , church and workplace as well as ...
... sport , class and com- munity in colonial South Australia how extensively the Ade- laide gentry sponsored , organized and contributed to the formation of early sporting clubs which were based on school , church and workplace as well as ...
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... sport in the later part of the nineteenth century . They stress egalitarianism , national maturity , cohesiveness , pride . Other meanings are less inspiring . Organized sport clearly fostered Australian con- formity and discouraged ...
... sport in the later part of the nineteenth century . They stress egalitarianism , national maturity , cohesiveness , pride . Other meanings are less inspiring . Organized sport clearly fostered Australian con- formity and discouraged ...
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... Sport and Society 1890-1940 : A foray ' , in C. T. Stannage ( ed . ) , A New History of Western Australia , UWA ... Sporting History , UQP , St Lucia , 1979 , pp . 148–79 . 54 Philip Derriman , ' Death in Orange : The strange case of ...
... Sport and Society 1890-1940 : A foray ' , in C. T. Stannage ( ed . ) , A New History of Western Australia , UWA ... Sporting History , UQP , St Lucia , 1979 , pp . 148–79 . 54 Philip Derriman , ' Death in Orange : The strange case of ...
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