wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne
ISBN: 9780522851236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With a new preface and epilogue and a collection of picture essays by contemporary writers, this updated edition explores the economic, political, social, and cultural consequences of the economic rise and fall of Melbourne during the 1880s.
With a new preface and epilogue and a collection of picture essays by contemporary writers, this updated edition explores the economic, political, soc...
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138,12 |
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The Outcasts of Melbourne: Essays in Social History
ISBN: 9780868614465 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Behind the glittering image of 'Marvellous Melbourne' there existed in the popular imagination another, very different, picture of the colonial metropolis. This was the city of 'low life', of crowded slums, poverty, disease and vice.The nine essays in The Outcasts of Melbourne attempt to reveal the social realities behind this picture. They include new accounts of the forces which created the city's physical environment. They show how perceptions of a city can be shaped by campaigning journalists, artists and writers. They present collective portraits of the poor and the 'criminal classes' -...
Behind the glittering image of 'Marvellous Melbourne' there existed in the popular imagination another, very different, picture of the colonial metrop...
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214,87 |
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Hugh Stretton
ISBN: 9781760640743 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,37 |
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My Grandfather's Clock: Four Centuries of a British-Australian Family
ISBN: 9780522879582 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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143,23 |
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City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia
ISBN: 9781742234694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In City Dreamers Graeme Davison restores Australian cities, and those who created them, to their rightful place in the national imagination. Building on a lifetime s work, Davison views Australian history, from 1788 to the present day, through the eyes of city dreamers such as Henry Lawson, Charles Bean and Hugh Stretton and others who have helped make the cities we inhabit. Davison looks at significant individuals or groups that he calls snobs, slummers, pessimists, exodists, suburbans and anti-suburbans and argues that there s a particular twist to the ways in which Australians think...
In City Dreamers Graeme Davison restores Australian cities, and those who created them, to their rightful place in the national imagination. Bu...
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92,05 |
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Analysing Australian History: Creating a Nation (1834–2008)
ISBN: 9781009083553 / Angielski / Mixed media product / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The most comprehensive support available for success in Analysing VCE History. Creating a Nation: 1834-2008 examines the ways European settlers struggled to transform themselves into a nation, and the key questions they faced in doing so: How was a nation to be forged and who was to be included in that nation? These questions still play out today in a deep and often tense manner.
The most comprehensive support available for success in Analysing VCE History. Creating a Nation: 1834-2008 examines the ways European settlers strug...
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152,07 |
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The Outcasts of Melbourne: Essays in Social History
ISBN: 9780367719869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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747,05 |