Family experiments : middle-class, professional families in Australia and New Zealand c 1880-1920 /

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"Family Experiments explores the forms and undertakings of "family" that prevailed among British professionals who migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth century. Their attempts to establish and define "family" in Australasian, suburban environments rev...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Richardson, Shelley (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2016.
Series:ANU.Lives series in biography.
Subjects:
Middle class families > Australia > Biography.
Middle class families > New Zealand > Biography.
Immigrant families > Australia > Biography.
Immigrant families > New Zealand > Biography.
Familles de la classe moyenne > Australie > Biographies.
Familles de la classe moyenne > Nouvelle-Zélande > Biographies.
Familles immigrantes > Australie > Biographies.
Familles immigrantes > Nouvelle-Zélande > Biographies.
Middle class.
Family (Sociological unit)
Middle class culture.
Family relationship.
Family influence.
Colonialism.
Family environment.
Middle years.
Middle school students.
Archives.
Professional development.
Expectation.
Family involvement.
Australasia, Oceania and other land areas.
Australasia.
Australasian and Pacific history.
Australia.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Humanities.
New Zealand.
Regional and national history.
Social and cultural history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Immigrant families.
Middle class families.
Australian
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Section one: departures
  • The family and mid-Victorian idealism
  • The family and mid-Victorian realities
  • Section two: arrival and establishment
  • The academic evangelists
  • The lawyers
  • Section three: marriage and aspiriations: colonial families
  • Marriage
  • Educating daughters: the Christchurch girls
  • Educating daughters: the Melbourne girls
  • Boys.

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