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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... young men - 70 per cent were between the ages of sixteen and thirty , though there were boys as young as nine , and about 6 per cent in the end were women were recruited , initially from the New Hebrides and Fiji , later from the ...
... young men - 70 per cent were between the ages of sixteen and thirty , though there were boys as young as nine , and about 6 per cent in the end were women were recruited , initially from the New Hebrides and Fiji , later from the ...
Page 196
... young men from the public service , banks and insurance companies . ' Banjo ' Paterson rowed as a young man , of necessity perhaps , while he lived in his grand- mother's home on the Sydney foreshore at Gladesville . 58 Steele Rudd's ...
... young men from the public service , banks and insurance companies . ' Banjo ' Paterson rowed as a young man , of necessity perhaps , while he lived in his grand- mother's home on the Sydney foreshore at Gladesville . 58 Steele Rudd's ...
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... young people from persevering with education . Certainly the prospect of well- paid employment distracted young men from higher educa- tion . Not all wealthy men , however , were ill - disposed to education and culture . In 1884 ...
... young people from persevering with education . Certainly the prospect of well- paid employment distracted young men from higher educa- tion . Not all wealthy men , however , were ill - disposed to education and culture . In 1884 ...
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