The rise and fall of marvellous Melbourne / Graeme Davison
- Bib ID:
- 3119354
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Davison, Graeme, 1940-
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- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2004
- 382 p., [16] p. of plates. : ill., maps. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0522851231
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Part One THE CITY 18
- 1 'From Men to Money-grubbers' 20
- The Gold-rush Merchants-the Rise of the Agency System-
- the Mercantile Community-the Counting House and the
- Commercial Office-Problems of Succession-the Drift
- of Trade-Balancing the Books
- 2 'The Old Spirit Has Gone Out' 47
- A Sense of Disparity-the Pattern of Industrial Growth-
- 'Captains of Industry'-Apprenticeship in Decay-Industrial
- Conflict-Manufacturing in Depression-Class Formation
- and Industrial Development
- 3 'This Modern Babel' 85
- The 'System' and Its Enemies-Architects and Builders-
- Journeymen and Masters-the Torsion of the Market-
- the 'System' Returns
- 4 Professions and the Public 114
- Professional Status: the Attack from Within-the New
- Professions-Professional Status: the Attack from Outside
- 5 'A Great Quasi-mercantile Establishment' 137
- The Rise of the Patronage System
- Civil Service Rebfrm-
- the Boom and the Bureaucrats-Retrenchment and Reaction
- 6 The Social Dynamics of a Metropolis 158
- Part Two THE SUBURBS 164
- 7 Suburban Dreams and Urban Realities 166
- 'The Advantages of Country and City Life Combined'-the
- Social Functions of Domestic Privacy-Patterns of
- Residential Segregation-Factors in Suburban Growth-
- the Public Transport Revolution-the End of the Sprawl
- 8 'A City of Freehold Homes' 212
- A Home of One's Own'-the Pattern of Ownership-
- Compulsory Tenants and Reluctant Landlords
- 9 Making Ends Meet 231
- Foundations of a Plutocratic Society: the Structure of Means-
- Anticipatory Spending: the 'Marriage Question'-Patterns of
- Expenditure-the Depression: a Multiple Crisis of Means-
- Drastic Remedies-a New Fashion of Austerity
- 10 'Marvellous Melbourne' 279
- The Ideal and Its Critics-History and Prophecy-
- the Fall of the City and the Rise of the Rural Ideal.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 365-371.
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