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SECOND HAND BOOK
In Melbourne: The Growth of a Metropolis, Jill Eastwood makes a study of one city in the context of urbanisation and the growth of world capitalism – both potent forces in the nineteenth century. Melbourne is seen as remarkable because of the rapidity of its growth, the intent with which its inhabitants concentrated on making money and its steadfast refusal to face the sanitation problems inherent in urban living. Melbournians were proud of their city, the style of life it embodied and the success of the development. They lost a great deal in the depression of the 1890’s, from which their city never regained its former dominance and glory.
Paperback, 98pp, 1983.
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