School of Historical and Philosophical Studies - Theses
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ItemThe settlement of Melbourne 1851-1893: selected aspects of urban growth( 1970-02)Melbourne was the obvious choice as a prototype of a nineteenth century colonial city in the following study in urban history. It succeeded early to a pre-eminent position within Victoria, indeed of the entire Australian continent and its position of supremacy went unchallenged until the twentieth century. It was never seriously threatened by the claims of rival cities such as Ballarat, Sandhurst or Geelong. In this respect, Melbourne was a classic primate city with a whole-state hinterland and was justly described as "the commercial metropolis of the South". Its favourable geographic location, centrally placed between eastern and western halves of the colony, together with its position at the northern end of Port Phillip Bay provided the logical point of convergance for a railway network spanning the reaches of the interior. This gave a nodal quality to the city which made it the sole effective input-output point for all commerce with the mainland interior.(For complete abstract open document)
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ItemSome aspects of the development of the metal trades in Ballarat 1851-1901( 1971-08)This thesis is an attempt to provide a special examination centering on some aspects on the development of metal processing and fabricating industries in the Victorian gold mining town of Ballarat from its foundation in 1851 to the end of its first half century in 1901. It is in effect a case study of a particular group of manufacturing activities made with the intention of improving general historians' understanding of the forces behind the establishment and growth of secondary industries in the non-metropolitan towns of nineteenth century Australia.
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ItemThe emergence of a bayside suburb: Sandringham, Victoria c. 1850-1900( 1971-03)The past neglect of the Australian city by historians is frequently the subject of lament. The neglect can be highlighted by noting that not only has the impact of the city been generally avoided in Australian historiography despite its overarching importance but also by the fact that Melbourne and Sydney still lack biographies. By contrast, major British and United States cities have had substantial treatment. Therefore, in the circumstance of very considerable gaps in Australian urban historiography, there is probably little need to justify a research topic which tackles the emergence of Sandringham, a Melbourne suburb in the late 19th century. Apart from the narrow and local purpose of providing a means by which local residents can further identify themselves with their community, a suburb history can provide a case study in urbanization which can be of relevance to the whole field of urban history and more specifically, it can enrich the written history of the city of which it is part.
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ItemThe organisation of the Catholic laity in Victoria, 1911-1930( 1972)This thesis deals with the form of lay organisation which came to be known as “Catholic Action”, in the sense of “a tightly structured organisation that serves as an arm of the hierarchy in lay life”. The body created to assist the hierarchy in co-ordinating lay activity during this period was a federation of Catholic lay societies, under clerical control at the parish, diocesan and national levels, the pattern for which had been exported from Rome to many countries. The Australian Catholic Federation was inaugurated in Melbourne on 12 December 1911. By the end of 1914 it had appeared in South Australia, New South Wales and Tasmania, but seems to have spread no farther. It is with the introduction of this movement to Australia and its progress in Victoria, until it was abandoned there in 1930, that I am chiefly concerned. Neither the source of the Federation movement nor its ecclesiastical direction received much emphasis in the speeches of its leaders or in Catholic publications. On the contrary, it was the “lay” character of the Australian body and the role of local grievances in its formation that were stressed. Throughout its existence, the Australian Federation was to experience tension between the professed and the actual nature of its inspiration and government. (from introduction)