Pounds and Pedigrees
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Pounds and Pedigrees: The Upper Class in Victoria 1850–80 by Paul De Serville is a sweeping history of public and private life in Melbourne's establishment during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. A detailed study of the morals, beliefs, and lifestyles of Victoria's upper classes in the decades following the gold rush, De Serville's exhaustive work is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in colonial Australian social history. Complete with extensive biographical entries, a bibliography, an index, and appendices including lists of landowners in 1879 and club memberships, it is as much a reference work as it is a narrative history — authoritative, richly detailed, and unlikely to be superseded.
Author: Paul De Serville
Format: Hardback, 619 pages
Published: 1991, Oxford University Press Australia, Australia
Genre: History: Specific Subjects
Pounds and Pedigrees: The Upper Class in Victoria 1850–80 by Paul De Serville is a sweeping history of public and private life in Melbourne's establishment during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. A detailed study of the morals, beliefs, and lifestyles of Victoria's upper classes in the decades following the gold rush, De Serville's exhaustive work is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in colonial Australian social history. Complete with extensive biographical entries, a bibliography, an index, and appendices including lists of landowners in 1879 and club memberships, it is as much a reference work as it is a narrative history — authoritative, richly detailed, and unlikely to be superseded.