A Financial Tale of Two Cities
Subtitle: Sydney and Melbourne's Remarkable Contest for Commercial Supremacy
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780868409634
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history; Finance; Financial services industry; Australia; Australia & New Zealand - General; Commerce; Business & Economics; Business/Economics
Description: Describes the intense commercial rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne over a period of some 150 years. While Sydney was established nearly half a century before Melbourne, the great wealth generated by the Victorian goldfields soon ensured that Melbourne held an unassailable position as the continent's leading and richest centre of commerce.