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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... tion and organization . Wasteful searching for work was minimized ; labour was available when and where it was needed ; wages and conditions were kept steady and under surveillance . Rural employers , in the pastoral industry in ...
... tion and organization . Wasteful searching for work was minimized ; labour was available when and where it was needed ; wages and conditions were kept steady and under surveillance . Rural employers , in the pastoral industry in ...
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... tion of China's capacity to overhaul Britain as a supplier of cheap manufactures in this part of the world . Direct expression of these fears was seen in legislation in Victoria which imposed more stringent controls on Chinese employees ...
... tion of China's capacity to overhaul Britain as a supplier of cheap manufactures in this part of the world . Direct expression of these fears was seen in legislation in Victoria which imposed more stringent controls on Chinese employees ...
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... tion as an admirably responsible attitude to the expenditure of public money . Such accountancy is not infallible about values . There was a tendency for costliness to become the value of worth instilled by education . Despite the ...
... tion as an admirably responsible attitude to the expenditure of public money . Such accountancy is not infallible about values . There was a tendency for costliness to become the value of worth instilled by education . Despite the ...
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