Melbourne.(The Encyclopedia of Melbourne)(Book review)

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The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain. Cambridge University Press, 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, 2005. 816 pp., ill., index. Price: $A 150-00.

A number of encyclopedias have been published for American towns [New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Cleveland], but this is the first for an Australian city. The proposal was first put forward by Andrew Brown-May, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of the University of Melbourne; his co-editor is a Reader in History at the Australian