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Hugh Stretton - Selected Writings by Graeme Davison
32.99 AUD
Category: History
His book The Political Sciences was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as 'a work of near genius.' His Ideas for Australian Cities was a groundbreaking intervention in urban studies and progressive thinking on social reform. This collection of Stretton's writing, compiled by Australia's leading urb ...Show more
My Grandfather's Clock: Four Centuries of a British-Australian Family by Graeme Davison
50.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
British Australia- a search for family. A great-aunt's bequest - a 200-year-old grandfather clock - sends historian Graeme Davison on a journey deep into his father's family's past. From their tribal homeland in the Scottish Borders he follows them to the garrison town of Carlisle, from industrial Bir ...Show more
Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne by DAVISON GRAEME
49.99 AUD
Category: History
In the 1880s, a generation after the gold rushes, Melbourne rose to become Australia's most populous, modern and self-consciously 'metropolitan' city. Its offices and warehouses leapt skyward, its suburbs sprawled and the tentacles of its commerce reached across the continent. In the 1890s, the housing ...Show more
The Lost Relations: Fortunes of My Family in Australia's Golden Age by Graeme Davison
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Through the lives of two generations of his forebears, one of Australia's most respected historians tells the story of English free settlers arriving in the mid-19th century: the miners, millers, storekeepers, free selectors and railwaymen who built the Australia we know today.
The Use and Abuse of Australian History by Graeme Davison
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
In the age of Mabo and the Republic, history is often in the headlines. The past is always with us, not only in debates about land rights and Aboriginal reconciliation, but in national celebrations and demands for national heroes, and in more private and local concerns with family history, historic buil ...Show more
Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities by Graeme Davison; Renate Howe; David Nichols
34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Australian Studies
In the 1960s and 70s, Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval which left them changed forever. People from all walks of life who valued their suburbs - places like Balmain, Battery Point, Carlton, Indooropilly, North Adelaide, or Subiaco - resisted large-scale development projects for freeways, ...Show more
University Unlimited The Monash Story by Graeme; Murphy, Kate Davison
35.00 AUD
Category: History
From its beginnings Monash has been a 'university in a hurry'. Born on the suburban fringe of Melbourne, it has reached outwards rather than gazed inwards. Over its five decades it has embraced the challenges of the age of sputnik, become a hotbed of student radicalism, followed by an equally radical tu ...Show more
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