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 82
... authority of the existing churches , the Catholic church was the obvious representative of traditional church authority . Catholicism in the 1860s was perceived as Romish and sinister . The later Irish version was less interesting ...
... authority of the existing churches , the Catholic church was the obvious representative of traditional church authority . Catholicism in the 1860s was perceived as Romish and sinister . The later Irish version was less interesting ...
Page 265
... authority . The idea of a big landholder was more potent than the reality . Images and fears based on memories of relations between landlords and tenants in Ireland and Scotland played their part . So did ingrained deference . Though he ...
... authority . The idea of a big landholder was more potent than the reality . Images and fears based on memories of relations between landlords and tenants in Ireland and Scotland played their part . So did ingrained deference . Though he ...
Page 293
... authority of the Brit- ish Army Act and the whole episode was so legally confused that the British government was reluctant to repeat it . 131 Authority or control over necessarily very mobile naval units based in colonial ports was ...
... authority of the Brit- ish Army Act and the whole episode was so legally confused that the British government was reluctant to repeat it . 131 Authority or control over necessarily very mobile naval units based in colonial ports was ...
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