The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne

Geoff Hewitt, Jeremy Smith, Justin McCarthy, Charlotte Smith, Tim Murray, Bronwyn Woff, Barbara Minchinton, Kristal Buckley, Dr Sarah Hayes, Professor Richard Mackay

ISBN 10: 1743323697 / ISBN 13: 9781743323694

Verlag: Sydney University Press, AU, 2019

Beschreibung

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Melbourne's Little Lonsdale Street - locally known as 'Little Lon' - was notorious as a foul slum and brothel district, occupied by the itinerant and the criminal. The stereotype of 'slumdom' defined 'Little Lon' in the minds of Melbournians, and became entrenched in Australian literature and popular culture.The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne tells a different story. This groundbreaking book reports on almost three decades of excavations conducted on the Commonwealth Block - the area of central Melbourne bordered by Little Lonsdale, Lonsdale, Exhibition and Spring streets. Since the 1980s, archaeologists and historians have pieced together the rich and complex history of this area, revealing a working-class and immigrant community that was much more than just a slum. The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne delves into the complex social, cultural and economic history of this forgotten community.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781743323694

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne
• Verlag: Sydney University Press, AU
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1743323697
• ISBN-13: 9781743323694
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New
• Gewicht: 400 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

The stereotype of ‘slumdom’ defined ‘Little Lon’ in the minds of Melbournians, and became entrenched in Australian literature and popular culture.

The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne tells a different story. This ground-breaking book reports on almost three decades of excavations conducted on the Commonwealth Block – the area of central Melbourne bordered by Little Lonsdale, Lonsdale, Exhibition and Spring streets. Since the 1980s, archaeologists and historians have pieced together the rich and complex history of this area, revealing a working-class and immigrant community that was much more than just a slum. 

Each chapter is authored by researchers who were responsible for the management and execution of the excavations and analysis of the Block. The authors outline the history and methodology of each stage of the project, and consider changes in theory and method (and inspiration and aspiration) in response to other studies, and to the changing disciplinary context of urban archaeology. This book makes an important contribution to the archaeology of the modern city.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Murray is the Charles La Trobe Professor of Archaeology at La Trobe University.

Kristal Buckley is a lecturer in cultural heritage at Deakin University.

Sarah Hayes is a historical archaeologist in the heritage and indigeneity stream of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.

Geoff Hewitt is a consulting archaeologist.

Justin McCarthy is an archaeologist and the Managing Director of heritage consulting firm Austral Archaeology Pty Ltd.

Richard Mackay is the founder and ‘Director of Possibilities’ at Mackay Strategic, and an adjunct professor of archaeology at La Trobe University.

Barbara Minchinton is an independent researcher and volunteer at the Public Record Office Victoria.

Charlotte Smith is a curator emeritus at Museums Victoria.

Jeremy Smith is Heritage Victoria’s Principal Archaeologist, and has been a member of the Archaeology Advisory Committee of the Victorian Heritage Council since 2002.

Bronwyn Woff was the Research Assistant for the La Trobe University Commonwealth Block Project between 2015 and 2017.