Port Phillip Gentlemen: Good society in Melbourne before the gold rushes
Oxford University Press, $27.50, 256 pp
Australian History
Snobs and mobs
by Jim Davidson •
One of the most interesting developments in recent Australian historiography has been a pushing back of the frontiers, a recovery of times or phases which seemed quite beyond recall, even when remembered. Such history-writing bears something of the character of sounding in archaeology.
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Port Phillip Gentlemen: Good society in Melbourne before the gold rushes
by Paul de Serville
Oxford University Press, $27.50, 256 pp
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