Capital: Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901-27

Kristin Otto

Capital: Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901-27
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Text Publishing Co
Country
Australia
Published
26 October 2009
Pages
368
ISBN
9781921520778

Capital: Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901-27

Kristin Otto

In 1901 the Australian colonies came together to form a new nation which, for the next twenty-six years, was governed from Melbourne. It was a small city, a place where people knew each other -

not just the people who mattered, but those who didn’t yet -

where small changes loomed large and the import of big changes could scarcely be imagined. Yet in the extraordinary first quarter of the twentieth century the world lurched headlong into a new era. And this overgrown town, in all but name the nation’s capital, oversaw the birth of modern Australia.
In Capital, Kristin Otto describes how it happened. She looks at the developments that shaped the world we know today- from the story of Helena Rubinstein and the invention of the cosmetics industry, to the world’s first feature film, to confectionery king Mac Robertson, packaging pioneer and author of the city’s first motor car fatality.

And she traces, with the lightest of touches, the web of influence, friendship and sheer coincidence that held it all

together.
For anyone who knows

Melbourne, Capital will be a fascinating conversation with an old friend.

For anyone who doesn’t, it will be a compelling introduction to a new one.

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