Life In The Cities: Australia In The Victorian Age: 3
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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At the height of Australia's Victorian era, a new urban civilization was taking shape — one of bustling streets, grand colonial architecture, and a society straining under the pressures of rapid growth and ambition. Life in the Cities, the third volume in Michael Cannon's landmark Australia in the Victorian Age series, chronicles the dramatic transformation of Australian urban life during the nineteenth century, presenting a vivid tableau of the social, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the nation's great cities, from Melbourne to Sydney. Cannon draws on a wealth of historical sources to reconstruct the daily rhythms of city dwellers — merchants, workers, women, and immigrants — painting an intimate portrait of a society caught between the frontier past and an industrializing future. Cannon's meticulous narrative style blends scholarly rigour with the accessibility of a seasoned storyteller, making complex social histories compelling to general readers and academics alike. This volume stands as a significant contribution to Australian historiography, illuminating themes of class, ambition, inequality, and civic identity that resonate far beyond the colonial period. For anyone seeking to understand the foundations of modern Australia, this richly detailed account leaves one wondering just how much of that Victorian city still lives on in the streets we walk today.
Author: Michael Cannon
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the height of Australia's Victorian era, a new urban civilization was taking shape — one of bustling streets, grand colonial architecture, and a society straining under the pressures of rapid growth and ambition. Life in the Cities, the third volume in Michael Cannon's landmark Australia in the Victorian Age series, chronicles the dramatic transformation of Australian urban life during the nineteenth century, presenting a vivid tableau of the social, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the nation's great cities, from Melbourne to Sydney. Cannon draws on a wealth of historical sources to reconstruct the daily rhythms of city dwellers — merchants, workers, women, and immigrants — painting an intimate portrait of a society caught between the frontier past and an industrializing future. Cannon's meticulous narrative style blends scholarly rigour with the accessibility of a seasoned storyteller, making complex social histories compelling to general readers and academics alike. This volume stands as a significant contribution to Australian historiography, illuminating themes of class, ambition, inequality, and civic identity that resonate far beyond the colonial period. For anyone seeking to understand the foundations of modern Australia, this richly detailed account leaves one wondering just how much of that Victorian city still lives on in the streets we walk today.