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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... effect , recreating something of the old optimism . Only those who had actually experienced the harshness of the north and west knew how precarious was the hold of the tiny white encampments along all those coasts . But from the mid ...
... effect , recreating something of the old optimism . Only those who had actually experienced the harshness of the north and west knew how precarious was the hold of the tiny white encampments along all those coasts . But from the mid ...
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... effect of keeping both clergy and laity continually busy with religious observance , though there was a danger that if or when the action ceased , so too did the meaning of religion . Those who could accept the church's prescriptions on ...
... effect of keeping both clergy and laity continually busy with religious observance , though there was a danger that if or when the action ceased , so too did the meaning of religion . Those who could accept the church's prescriptions on ...
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... effect , indoors and out , in private and in public . Native plants with their fantastic shapes and tendency to straggle picturesquely or to resist pruning , lost favour to the more disciplined and well - bred species of the Old World ...
... effect , indoors and out , in private and in public . Native plants with their fantastic shapes and tendency to straggle picturesquely or to resist pruning , lost favour to the more disciplined and well - bred species of the Old World ...
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