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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... industry and the production of building materials employed about one - third of the Vic- torian male workforce in the 1860s . Although the relative proportions of building and construction to other forms of manufacturing employment ...
... industry and the production of building materials employed about one - third of the Vic- torian male workforce in the 1860s . Although the relative proportions of building and construction to other forms of manufacturing employment ...
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... industry in the metropolitan areas was marked . The characteristic manufacturing establishment was small , often little more than a shed in a backyard , employing a handful of workers . Some of the complications of regulating factory ...
... industry in the metropolitan areas was marked . The characteristic manufacturing establishment was small , often little more than a shed in a backyard , employing a handful of workers . Some of the complications of regulating factory ...
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... industries and casual trades , while the most gruesome streets in the pre- industrial dockside areas and in the shadow of ... industry closed down or moved , but it worked for Arnotts , which became one of the nineteenth - century ...
... industries and casual trades , while the most gruesome streets in the pre- industrial dockside areas and in the shadow of ... industry closed down or moved , but it worked for Arnotts , which became one of the nineteenth - century ...
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