{"product_id":"2026100010837-secondhand-a-centenary-history-of-the-university-of-melbourne","title":"A Centenary History Of The University Of Melbourne","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the University of Melbourne opened its doors in 1853, it stood as a bold colonial experiment — a institution of learning carved from a young and restless land, destined to shape the intellectual and cultural life of a nation. Geoffrey Blainey's centenary chronicle traces the University's first hundred years with meticulous scholarship and vivid narrative, documenting the ambitions, controversies, and remarkable personalities that transformed a fledgling colonial college into one of Australia's most distinguished seats of learning. Blainey reconstructs the struggles over funding and governance, the evolving role of women in academia, the disruptions of two World Wars, and the passionate debates about what a university in the antipodes should ultimately stand for.\n\nBlainey — already establishing himself as one of Australia's foremost historians — writes with an assured, authoritative hand, weaving institutional detail into a broader portrait of Australian society in its formative decades. His prose is precise yet accessible, grounding grand historical forces in the lives of individual students, professors, and administrators who built something enduring from very little. A Centenary History of The University of Melbourne is far more than institutional biography; it is a lens through which the social, political, and intellectual evolution of modern Australia can be understood. For anyone curious about the making of a nation's mind, this landmark work remains as illuminating today as when it was first published.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50609711677659,"sku":"2026100010837-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/09275243-dcc7-40ea-99b0-4d1459e5acf0.png?v=1791764739","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010837-secondhand-a-centenary-history-of-the-university-of-melbourne","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}