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Paperback / softback. New. Boom or bust? What was the truth of the great land booms that swept Australia in the 1880s and 1890s? How was it that some speculators amassed prodigious fortunes, while others went so spectacularly broke?<br />Seventy years after the events, historian Michael Cannon began sifting through thousands of records and documents, long since filed and forgotten. He pieced together an incredible trail of corruption and roguery, rarely if ever equalled in any parliamentary democracy.<br />When the bare bones of this exposé were first published in 1966, it caused an immediate sensation as the forebears of many well-known families were involved. Never before had any Australian historian been able to document such unbridled greed and over-riding ambition. Extended and revised, <i>The Land Boomers</i> is generously illustrated with cartoons, photographs and etchings of the time, and includes an introduction by the author on how he came to research…
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- Título The Land Boomers
- Autor Michael Cannon
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Second Edition
- Páginas 420
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Melbourne University, Carlton VIC
- Fecha de publicación 1995-05-01
- ISBN 9780522846638 / 0522846637
- Peso 1.65 libras (0.75 kg)
- Dimensiones 10 x 7.2 x 1.15 pulgadas (25.40 x 18.29 x 2.92 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Australian
- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Dewey Decimal Code 330.994
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The Land Boomers
de Michael Cannon
- Nuevo
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Nuevo
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780522846638 / 0522846637
- Cantidad disponible
- 10
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The Land Boomers: The Complete Illustrated History
de Cannon, Michael
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Usado - Bien
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780522846638 / 0522846637
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Newport Coast, California, United States
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EUR 65.79Envío gratuito a USA
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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
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EUR 65.79
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