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The Manly Ferry: A history of the service and its operators, 1854-1974

Master of Arts / This work is the history of a particularly singular and strong human enterprise. Until the advent of several more recent interpretative works, Australian transport historiography has heavily emphasised engineering and operational development without examining the contextual social and economic forces. The Manly Ferry, with its unique contribution to the history of Sydney's development as a suburban city, provides a distinctive microcosmic example with which to illustrate the evolution of an urban society - with its emphasis on mobility - in the wake of the industrial revolution.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/283300
Date January 1984
CreatorsPrescott, Anthony M
PublisherUniversity of Sydney., Faculty of Arts
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
Languageen_AU
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsThe author retains copyright of this thesis., http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/copyright.html

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