The Rise And Fall Of Marvellous Melbourne

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A new edition of this classic work which looks at Melbourne, among the most surburbanized of nineteenth-century cities, in its pursuit of 'suburbanism as a way of life'. Looks beyond public events to discover how the experience of boom and depression touched the lives of ordinary Melburnians, at work and at home, and reshaped their society and their sense of urban identity.

Professor Graeme Davison is Head of the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of the Humanities. His main interest is in the history of cities. His books include Car Wars and The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time. He edited Australians 1888 and the Oxford Companion to Australian History.