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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... possible to strike north at a tangent to the impenetrably dry country , keeping to the line of the Diaman- tina and eventually crossing , as Paddy Durack and Nat Buchanan did , through the Roper River lands to the downs of Victoria ...
... possible to strike north at a tangent to the impenetrably dry country , keeping to the line of the Diaman- tina and eventually crossing , as Paddy Durack and Nat Buchanan did , through the Roper River lands to the downs of Victoria ...
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... possible that in Australia some emphases were different . Good health , youthfulness , affluence and leisure all sharpened interest in sex . Tension between the desire for respectability and the search for modernity may have been ...
... possible that in Australia some emphases were different . Good health , youthfulness , affluence and leisure all sharpened interest in sex . Tension between the desire for respectability and the search for modernity may have been ...
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... possible among the very large group of people who gave Australia as their birthplace . There were at least two reasons for this . One was the long - standing desire to have as few liabilities on the books as possible . The other was an ...
... possible among the very large group of people who gave Australia as their birthplace . There were at least two reasons for this . One was the long - standing desire to have as few liabilities on the books as possible . The other was an ...
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