Family Experiments Middle-class, professional families in Australia and New Zealand c. 1880-1920
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 reveal ho...
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2016
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