{"product_id":"2026200013504-secondhand-lucky-city-the-first-generation-at-ballarat-1851-1901","title":"Lucky City: The First Generation At Ballarat: 1851-1901","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen gold transformed a colonial outpost into a roaring metropolis almost overnight, the city of Ballarat became one of the most dramatic social experiments of the nineteenth century. Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat: 1851-1901 chronicles the tumultuous first fifty years of this remarkable Victorian city, from the frenzied gold rush of 1851 through to the dawn of Federation, charting how fortune-seekers from across the globe built streets, institutions, and an entire civic identity out of the raw Australian earth. Weston Bate presents an authoritative and richly detailed portrait of a community forged under extraordinary pressure, where the pursuit of wealth collided with the hard realities of colonial life.\n\nBate's narrative moves beyond the mythology of the goldfields to illuminate the deeper social, political, and economic forces that shaped Ballarat's evolution into a prosperous and cultured city. Drawing on meticulous historical research, he illustrates how class, immigration, labour unrest — including the iconic Eureka Stockade — and civic ambition collectively defined the character of an entire generation. Written with both scholarly rigour and narrative warmth, Lucky City stands as a landmark work of Australian urban history, leaving the reader to wonder just how much of the nation's modern identity was hammered out on the goldfields of Ballarat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210228670683,"sku":"2026200013504-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/13dc33f8-cbf9-4088-987e-5a779074ae30.png?v=1788267591","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013504-secondhand-lucky-city-the-first-generation-at-ballarat-1851-1901","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}