{"product_id":"2026200015015-secondhand-marvellous-melbourne-the-emergence-of-an-australian-city","title":"Marvellous Melbourne: The Emergence Of An Australian City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the height of the gold rush era, no city in the Southern Hemisphere burned brighter or grew faster than Melbourne — a metropolis that seemed to conjure itself from the wilderness almost overnight. Marvellous Melbourne: The Emergence of an Australian City by J. Roe chronicles the dramatic social, economic, and cultural forces that transformed a colonial outpost into one of the great Victorian-era cities of the world, tracing its explosive growth through the lives of its inhabitants, its institutions, and its defining contradictions of wealth and poverty, ambition and inequality.\n\nSituated within the Studies in Australian Social History series, this work presents a rigorous yet accessible account of urban development, arguing that Melbourne's rise was not merely a triumph of colonial enterprise but a complex social phenomenon shaped by immigration, class formation, and civic identity. Roe's analytical style is precise and authoritative, drawing on a rich tapestry of historical evidence to illustrate how a city's character is forged in the crucible of its earliest struggles — leaving the reader to wonder whether the Marvellous Melbourne of legend was ever quite as golden as it seemed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203185975515,"sku":"2026200015015-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7d063e9b-f020-4a3e-b7a5-0bfd499210ce.png?v=1788145187","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015015-secondhand-marvellous-melbourne-the-emergence-of-an-australian-city","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}