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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... groups whose colour or sex made them easy targets for exclusion . Australia's treatment of the Chinese however , did provoke international attention . Their exclusion under Queensland's first Goldfields Amend- ment Bill in 1876 was ...
... groups whose colour or sex made them easy targets for exclusion . Australia's treatment of the Chinese however , did provoke international attention . Their exclusion under Queensland's first Goldfields Amend- ment Bill in 1876 was ...
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... groups like clans within larger tribes . The clans were further sub - divided in ways which de- termined marriage patterns and inheritance . With these small sub - groups which consisted of a number of extended families interrelated by ...
... groups like clans within larger tribes . The clans were further sub - divided in ways which de- termined marriage patterns and inheritance . With these small sub - groups which consisted of a number of extended families interrelated by ...
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... groups manoeuvred to assert traditional forms of authority or to invent new ones . Those who fell outside the economic structure or were excluded by sex or colour were irrelevant to the rhetoric of egalitarianism . Even so , colonial ...
... groups manoeuvred to assert traditional forms of authority or to invent new ones . Those who fell outside the economic structure or were excluded by sex or colour were irrelevant to the rhetoric of egalitarianism . Even so , colonial ...
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