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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... forms of British and European culture for their own purposes . The other is the gradual acceptance of environment and ordinary experience as legitimate expressions of a nation- al culture . Most culture in the Australian colonies was ...
... forms of British and European culture for their own purposes . The other is the gradual acceptance of environment and ordinary experience as legitimate expressions of a nation- al culture . Most culture in the Australian colonies was ...
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Beverley Kingston Geoffrey Bolton. setting , then because it suggested challenges to traditional forms and styles , and eventually because it was a barrier to the wider world , a badge of provincialism . The forms and knowledge of the ...
Beverley Kingston Geoffrey Bolton. setting , then because it suggested challenges to traditional forms and styles , and eventually because it was a barrier to the wider world , a badge of provincialism . The forms and knowledge of the ...
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... forms had been well and truly laid . 192 Nor can there be much doubt that it was a creative and vigorous period for the growth of the masculine egalitarian Australian culture celebrated by Arthur Jose and Vance Palmer . 193 At mid ...
... forms had been well and truly laid . 192 Nor can there be much doubt that it was a creative and vigorous period for the growth of the masculine egalitarian Australian culture celebrated by Arthur Jose and Vance Palmer . 193 At mid ...
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