Australia In The Victorian Age. Includes 3 Volumes:
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Volume 1: Who's Master? Who's Man? 304 Pages.
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Volume 2: Life In The Country? 320 Pages.
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Volume 3: Life In The Cities? 320 Pages.
By Michael Cannon
Published by Thomas Nelson Australia Pty Ltd: West Melbourne 1978
"Australia in the Victorian Age is Michael Cannon's landmark three-volume social history that vividly reconstructs life in Australia during the nineteenth century, moving beyond political narrative to examine power, class, work, and everyday experience. In Who's Master? Who's Man? Cannon explores authority, labour relations, and conflict in colonial society, including the tensions between employers and workers, the legacy of convictism, and the emergence of organised resistance. Life in the Country shifts the focus to rural Australia, detailing pastoral expansion, land use, isolation, bush labour, and the realities of settler life outside the cities, while Life in the Cities examines the rapid growth of urban centres, addressing housing, poverty, wealth, crime, leisure, and the shaping of civic culture in Melbourne and other colonial cities.
First issued in limp edition in 1978 by Thomas Nelson Australia, this complete three-volume set is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of modern Australian historiography, notable for its narrative strength, use of contemporary sources, and ability to animate historical experience with clarity and empathy. Cannon's work remains essential reading for understanding how nineteenth-century Australians lived, worked, and negotiated power in a rapidly changing society, and will particularly appeal to collectors of Australian social history, readers of Victorian-era studies, and those with a strong interest in colonial life, labour history, and the development of Australian identity."
General wear to covers and spines. No inscriptions. Pages clean and unmarked aside from light marks on volume 3 contents page as shown. A nice 3 volume set in good condition overall. Please study photos to further understand condition.
