Author: DE SERVILLE, PAUL.
Title: Port Phillip Gentlemen. And Good Society in Melbourne before the Gold Rush.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 256; b/w illustrations, b/w plates, appendices, abbreviations bibliography; original patterned cloth boards, dustjacket, fine copy. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; 1980. This is a study of a neglected class and a neglected period in Australian history: the gentlemen colonists of Port Phillip and the society they created in Melbourne before the gold rushes. From 1836 to 1842 the gentlemen attempted both to re-create their home life, customs, and milieu in the Antipodes, and to establish a society based on blood, privilege and the principle of exclusion.
Keywords: Australian Local History Victoria Melbourne Port Phillip
Title: Port Phillip Gentlemen. And Good Society in Melbourne before the Gold Rush.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 256; b/w illustrations, b/w plates, appendices, abbreviations bibliography; original patterned cloth boards, dustjacket, fine copy. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; 1980. This is a study of a neglected class and a neglected period in Australian history: the gentlemen colonists of Port Phillip and the society they created in Melbourne before the gold rushes. From 1836 to 1842 the gentlemen attempted both to re-create their home life, customs, and milieu in the Antipodes, and to establish a society based on blood, privilege and the principle of exclusion.
Keywords: Australian Local History Victoria Melbourne Port Phillip
Price: AUD 30.00 = appr. US$ 20.76 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 124631
- Book number: 124631