The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne by Graeme Davison

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Some fading to spine. Interior and binding are still very good.

During the boom years of the 1880s, Marvellous Melbourne, as one admiring contemporary called the city, became the most populous, economically advanced and self-consciously metropolitan city in Australia. But the financial crash of the 1890s cost Miserable Melbourne her preeminence.

Graeme Davison looks at how the boom and depression touched the lives of ordinary Melbournians at work and at home and reshaped their society and sense of urban identity. (back cover)