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Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne by Graeme Davison (2004, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMelbourne University Publishing

ISBN-100522851231

ISBN-139780522851236

eBay Product ID (ePID)44571935

Product Key Features

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne

SubjectAustralia & New Zealand

Publication Year2004

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorGraeme Davison

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight19.7 Oz

Item Length6.1 in

Item Width9.6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2005-391654

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal330.9/945

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisIn the 1880s, a generation after the gold rushes, Melbourne rose to become Australia's most populous, modern and self-consciously 'metropolitan' city. Its offices and warehouses leapt skyward, its suburbs sprawled and the tentacles of its commerce reached across the continent. In the 1890s, the housing boom burst, depression struck and Melbourne's population and influence declined. In this classic work of Australian social history, Graeme Davison explores the economic, political, social and cultural consequences of the meteoric rise, and calamitous fall, of the city dubbed 'Marvellous Melbourne'. Twenty-six years after this much-acclaimed book was first published, Davison offers a reappraisal of his original ideas in a new preface and epilogue. The book has also been enhanced by a series of picture essays exploring the response of contemporary artists and photographers to the transformation of city and suburbs., Looks beyond public events to discover how the experience of boom and depression touched the lives of ordinary Melbournians, at work and at home, and reshaped their society and their sense of urban identity. This work examines Melbourne, among the surburbanised of nineteenth-century cities, in its pursuit of 'suburbanism as a way of life'.

LC Classification NumberDU228.3