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Paperback, 22.5x15cm,228 pages, illustrated,maps, index, light general wear. This was the city of 'low life', of crowded slums, poverty, disease and vice. The nine essays in The Outcasts of Melbourne attempt to reveal the social realities behind this picture.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. 228 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1985. First Paperback Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Behind the glittering image of 'Marvellous Melbourne' there existed in the popular imagination another, very different, picture of the colonial metropolis. This was the city of 'low life', of crowded slums, poverty, disease and vice.The nine essays in The Outcasts of Melbourne attempt to reveal the social realities behind this picture. They include new accounts of the forces which created the city's physical environment. They show how perceptions of a city can be shaped by campaigning journalists, artists and writers. They present collective portraits of the poor and the 'criminal classes' - and of those who set out to save them. They describe how the city's guardians - the police, public health authorities and charity workers - responded to the challenge of the slums.By imaginative use of the rich deposits in the public records, these explorations in social history present new ways of documenting the lives of people whose daily activities were seldom reported in the popular press. In doing so, they also map the chains of causation which link the actions of individuals - appearing before a committee of a benevolent society, getting arrested, evangelising at a Salvation Army rally - to the social forces which have shaped the cities in which we live. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Culture; ISBN: 0868614467. ISBN/EAN: 9780868614465. Inventory No: 22010300.…

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Very Good octavo vii + 228pp., b/w pls., maps, index, Presentation copy signed by Chris McConville on title-page.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 7-8 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

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1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo vii + 228pp., b/w pls., maps, index, Minor edge-wear o/w 'as new' copy of the very scarce hardcover edition.