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List of contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Graeme Davison
1 'This Moral Pandemonium': images of low life - Graeme Davison and David Dunstan
2 Chinatown - Chris McConville
3 From 'criminal class' to 'underworld' - Chris McConville
4 The poor people of Melbourne - Shurlee Swain
5 The doorstep evangelist: William Hall in darkest Prahran - Roslyn Otzen
6 The salvation war - Blair Ussher
7 Dirt and disease - David Dunstan
8 'Worst Smelbourne': Melbourne's noxious trades - John Lack
Notes
Index
About the author
GRAEME DAVISON is Professor of History at Monash University. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne (1978) and a co-editor of Australians 1988, a volume in the forthcoming bicentennial history. He is also the Chairman of the Historic Buildings Council of Victoria. DAVID DUNSTAN is the author of Governing the Metropolis (1984). He has been a journalist and a teacher at the University of Melbourne and at Deakin University, and is at present Senior Historian with the Heritage Branch of the Victorian Ministry for Planning and Environment. CHRIS MCCONVILLE teaches urban studies at Footscray Institute of Technology. A broadcaster and writer, he is co-editor of Families in Colonial Australia (1985).
Summary
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.
