{"product_id":"2026200018631-secondhand-the-long-last-summer-australias-upper-class-before-the-great-war","title":"The Long Last Summer: Australia's Upper Class Before The Great War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the guns of August shattered the old world forever, Australia's privileged elite basked in a golden age of wealth, leisure, and breathtaking inequality — a world that The Long Last Summer chronicles with vivid, unsparing detail. Michael Cannon presents a sweeping portrait of Australia's upper class in the years leading up to the First World War, illuminating the lavish balls, country estates, and genteel social rituals of a society that believed its prosperity was permanent, even as the tremors of history gathered beneath its feet.\n\nCannon, one of Australia's most respected social historians, argues that this era reveals the deep fault lines of class and privilege that shaped the nation's identity. Drawing on rich archival sources and striking period imagery curated by picture researcher Valerie Haye, the narrative illustrates how an entire social stratum was transformed — and in many cases obliterated — by the catastrophe of the Great War. A haunting elegy for a vanished world, this work leaves the reader wondering: what is truly lost when an age of certainty comes to its sudden, violent end?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50609693851867,"sku":"2026200018631-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4e2a989f-6d44-494a-8446-eeffd4be6eac.png?v=1791764635","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200018631-secondhand-the-long-last-summer-australias-upper-class-before-the-great-war","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}