The Outcasts of Melbourne
Essays in social history
$75.19
- Paperback
236 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1985
Summary
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 c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780868614465 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0868614467 |
| Author: | Graeme Davison |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 236 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1985 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 332mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Graeme Davison
GRAEME DAVISON is Professor of History at Monash University. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne (1978) and a co-editor of Australians 1988, a volume in the forthcoming bicentennial history. He is also the Chairman of the Historic Buildings Council of Victoria.
DAVID DUNSTAN is the author of Governing the Metropolis (1984). He has been a journalist and a teacher at the University of Melbourne and at Deakin University, and is at present Senior Historian with the Heritage Branch of the Victorian Ministry for Planning and Environment.
CHRIS MCCONVILLE teaches urban studies at Footscray Institute of Technology. A broadcaster and writer, he is co-editor of Families in Colonial Australia (1985).
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