During the boom years of the 1880s Melbourne became the most populous, economically advanced and self-consciously "metropolitan" city in Australia. But the financial crash of the 1890s cost the city her pre-eminence. "The rise and fall of marvellous Melbourne" 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. Graeme Davison is Professor of History at Monash University. His most recent book is a history of time in Australia, "The Unforgiving Minute".
- ISBN10 052284135X
- ISBN13 9780522841350
- Publish Date December 1979
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 November 2003
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Melbourne University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 316
- Language English