The rise and fall of marvellous Melbourne / Graeme Davison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davison, Graeme, 1940- author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melbourne (Vic.)--History.

Melbourne (Vic.).

Melbourne (Vic.)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 382 p., [16] p. of plates. ) ill. (some col.) , maps ;

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-371) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522866797

0522866794

OCLC:

1496392910

Publisher Number:

2027/heb03358 hdl