Builders Of Melbourne: The Cockrams And Their Contemporaries 1853-1972
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
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In the shadow of Melbourne's grand Victorian edifices lies a dynasty of builders whose ambition and craftsmanship shaped the very skyline of a nation — Builders of Melbourne: The Cockrams and their Contemporaries 1853–1972 is their definitive chronicle. Mary Turner Shaw presents a meticulous account of the Cockram family and the broader community of master builders who transformed a colonial settlement into one of the Southern Hemisphere's most architecturally distinguished cities. Spanning over a century of construction history, the work details the economic forces, civic pride, and individual enterprise that drove the creation of Melbourne's most iconic structures, from the boom years of the gold rush era through to the modernist transformations of the twentieth century. Shaw's narrative illuminates the intersection of commerce, craftsmanship, and community, arguing that the story of Melbourne's built environment is inseparable from the lives of the families who raised it stone by stone. Written with scholarly precision yet rendered accessible to the general reader, the work draws on rich archival sources to reconstruct a world of contracts, competitions, and construction dynasties that has largely passed from public memory. A vital contribution to Australian architectural and social history, this volume leaves the reader questioning just how much of what we call a city is, in truth, the monument of a handful of determined hands.
Author: Mary Turner Shaw
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of Melbourne's grand Victorian edifices lies a dynasty of builders whose ambition and craftsmanship shaped the very skyline of a nation — Builders of Melbourne: The Cockrams and their Contemporaries 1853–1972 is their definitive chronicle. Mary Turner Shaw presents a meticulous account of the Cockram family and the broader community of master builders who transformed a colonial settlement into one of the Southern Hemisphere's most architecturally distinguished cities. Spanning over a century of construction history, the work details the economic forces, civic pride, and individual enterprise that drove the creation of Melbourne's most iconic structures, from the boom years of the gold rush era through to the modernist transformations of the twentieth century. Shaw's narrative illuminates the intersection of commerce, craftsmanship, and community, arguing that the story of Melbourne's built environment is inseparable from the lives of the families who raised it stone by stone. Written with scholarly precision yet rendered accessible to the general reader, the work draws on rich archival sources to reconstruct a world of contracts, competitions, and construction dynasties that has largely passed from public memory. A vital contribution to Australian architectural and social history, this volume leaves the reader questioning just how much of what we call a city is, in truth, the monument of a handful of determined hands.