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A History of European Housing in Australia
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1. Homeland origins of the Australian house Graeme Davison; 2. The introduction of order Susan Marsden; 3. Making do Miles Lewis; 4. Necessity the mother of invention, or, Do-It-Yourself Tony Dingle; 5. The industry time forgot Glenn Mitchell; 6. Embracing the new: a tale of two rooms Kimberley Webber; 7. The nesting instinct - or making oneself comfortable (or more rooms than persons) Nicholas Brown; 8. Planning, housing, gardening: home as a garden suburb Robert Freestone; 9. The household production of subsistence goods: the urban peasant thesis reassessed Pat Mullins and Chris Kynaston; 10. In Her Master's house and garden Katie Holmes; 11. Connections Lionel Frost; 12. The comfortable house: responding to the Australian environment Graham Holland; 13. Project homes or homes-as-project: fashion and utility in twentieth-century Australia Alastair Greig; 14. Housing for European Australians: paying for it all David Merrett; 15. Home ownership and the illusion of egalitarianism Blair Badcock; 16. Between the houses: neighbouring and privacy Mark Peel; 17. 'Poor naked wretches': Australian homelessness: an historical overview Clem Lloyd; 18. Lowering the standard Patrick N. Troy.

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This book, first published in 2000, is a systematic attempt to explain the cultural history of 'European' housing in Australia.

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"This is an important collection that will be useful for scholars of Australian housing, and indeed of the country itself, as housing is one of the human needs, if not rights. H-Net Reviews Jan 2002

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