The Rise And Fall Of Marvellous Melbourne
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The Rise And Fall Of Marvellous Melbourne

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The Rise And Fall Of Marvellous Melbourne

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. THE RISE AND FALL OF MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE
  2. Contents
  3. Preface TO THE Second Edition
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Part One The City
  7. ‘From Men TO Money-GRUBBERS’
  8. ‘THE OLD SPIRIT … HAS GONE OUT’
  9. ‘THIS MODERN BABEL’
  10. PROFESSIONS AND THE PUBLIC
  11. ‘A GREAT QUASI-MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT’
  12. THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF A METROPOLIS
  13. Part Two The Suburbs
  14. SUBURBAN DREAMS AND URBAN REALITIES
  15. ‘A CITY OF FREEHOLD HOMES’
  16. MAKING ENDS MEET
  17. ‘Marvellous Melbourne’
  18. ‘A City Ever IN Extremes’
  19. NOTES
  20. Select Bibliography
  21. SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  22. INDEX