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During the boom years of the 1880s Melbourne became the most populous, economically advanced and self-consciously "metropolitan" city in Australia. But the financial crash of the 1890s cost the city her pre-eminence. "The rise and fall of marvellous Melbourne" looks beyond public events to discover how the experience of boom and depression touched the lives of ordinary Melburnians, at work and at home, and reshaped their society and their sense of urban identity. Graeme Davison is Professor of History at Monash University. His most recent book is a history of time in Australia, "The Unforgiving Minute".
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Professor Graeme Davison is Head of the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of the Humanities. His main interest is in the history of cities. His books include Car Wars and The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time. He edited Australians 1888 and the Oxford Companion to Australian History.
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- PublisherMelbourne University Press
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 052284135X
- ISBN 13 9780522841350
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages316
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Melbourne University Press Melbourne 2004 (first, 1979
ISBN 10: 052284135X
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23.0 x 15.0cms 304pp b/w illusts very good+ paperback & cover This book attempts to explain the ways in which myth and reality interacted in Melbourne's history between 1880 and 1895. It describes the development of Melbourne's commerce manufacturing building industry professions and civil service as it evolved from a provincial city into an authentic metropolis. It also looks at its citizens' secluded consumer society: suburbanisation as a colonial way of life; home ownership; prosperity and depression. Seller Inventory # 20873561
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The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne
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Melbourne University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, 1979
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned and marked. 304 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Seller Inventory # 176889
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Hardback. In 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. 1978. First edition. A very good copy in edge rubbed red cloth boards. Light age tanning/spotting to the edges and prelims but otherwise the contents are fine and unmarked. The d/w is also very good with light edge rubbing and partial sunfading. Seller Inventory # 13266705
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The Rise And Fall Of Marvellous Melbourne
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Melbourne University Press, Carlton Victoria, 1978
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine In A Very Good Jacket With Rubbed Ends Pp 304 Index Illustrations. Seller Inventory # 010725
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Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. VG+/VG. 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt (slightly rubbed & flecked, prev. owner's name to half-title) in dustwrapper (rubbed & frayed, a little sunned , some spotting on reverse); pp. xiv (last blank), 304, with illustrations. A very good copy. Inscribed to prev. owner Gael Shannon by the author, Graeme Davison, with her handwritten research notes loosely enclosed. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 033492
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