The Rise And Fall Of Marvellous Melbourne

by Graeme Davison

Book Overview

Graeme Davison explores the economic, political, social and cultural consequences of the meteoric rise, and calamitous fall, of the city dubbed 'Marvellous Melbourne'.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522851231
• ISBN13: 9780522851236
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.4"