Commonwealth Block, Melbourne
A Historical Archaeology
"Overall this is a valuable addition to the greater corpus of material relating to Little Lon, which helps to contextualise and understand the development of the project over time. Anyone with an interest in urban archaeology and subaltern people will benefit from reading this."
Sean Winter, Australian Archaeology
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. Les mer
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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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Sydney University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781743323694
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 30 x 21 cm
Anmeldelser
"Overall this is a valuable addition to the greater corpus of material relating to Little Lon, which helps to contextualise and understand the development of the project over time. Anyone with an interest in urban archaeology and subaltern people will benefit from reading this."
Sean Winter, Australian Archaeology
«' ... the authors provide several different research angles and cover a wide range of topics and themes that revolve around the Little Lon project. The outcome of this book is a detailed synthesis of research addressing a variety of themes that exist within Australian historical archaeology and urban archaeology.'»
Hannah Craig-Ward, Australasian Historical Archaeology
«“Where the volume excels is in showing the extraordinary growth and development of Australian historical archaeology since the late 1980s … As a summary of site history (in both senses), method, and theory, it has considerable merit”»
Alasdair Brooks, Post-Medieval Archaeology