Victoria's Twins: The Rise of Manchester and Melbourne - Couverture souple

Smith, Barry

 
9780995363724: Victoria's Twins: The Rise of Manchester and Melbourne
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0995363722 ISBN 13 : 9780995363724
Editeur : Barry Smith, 2016

Synopsis

VICTORIA'S TWINS

The Rise of Manchester and Melbourne

"Tales of Fighting for Freedoms, Fortunes and Football"

This is a rich and dramatic historical novel that experiences the flowering of Manchester and Melbourne, two of the most significant cities of Queen Victoria's Empire, as they emerged and flourished during the turbulent years of the 19th and Early 20th centuries.
Both gave birth to world famous, liberal leaning newspapers, The Manchester Guardian and The Melbourne Age, which referee the game through the astutely, forensic eyes of their most illustrious and campaigning editors, C.P. Scott and David Syme but, who still can't help taking sides and entering the play.

It is in two parts.

Firstly The Beginning Years, from 1854 to the start of WW1, follows the life and adventures of a former Manchester Guardian compositor who migrates to Melbourne in time to join the Age, as it reports the beginning of the Eureka rebellion and starts to comment on and shape the colony's and Australia's turbulent path to State and Nationhood. With the constant oversight of Scott and Syme drawing out the similarities with Manchester's complementary fight for civil and political liberties and economic power.

Secondly, The Later Years relates experiences and escapades of a contemporary Manchester migrant, fleeing the dead hand of British socialism in the sixties only to land in the thick of Gough Whitlam's Prime Ministership and the gradual awakening of Melbourne from its prudish and censorial post war manacles to become the exciting cultural melting pot and social, sporting and culinary pace-setter for Australia, that it is today.

As at many times in their histories, the Guardian and the Age are in serious, if not terminal, economic trouble but their great powerhouse cities thrive and grow in the 21st century as never before.

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Éditeur
Barry Smith
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0995363722
ISBN 13 
9780995363724
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
254
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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