Cannon, Michael

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CANNON, Michael

CANNON, Michael. Australian, b. 1929. Genres: Area studies. Career: Journalist and historian in Melbourne and Sydney Australia and London, England; Historical Records of Victoria, Australia, chief editor, 1981-91. Publications: The Land Boomers, 1966, 2nd ed. as Land Boom and Bust, 1972; Who's Master? Who's Man? (vol. 1), 1971, Life in the Country (vol. 2), 1973, Life in the Cities (vol. 3), 1975; Lola Montes, 1973; An Australian Camera, 1851-1914, Newton Abbott, 1973; That Damned Democrat: John Norton, an Australian Populist, 1858-1916, 1981; The Long Last Summer: Australia's Upper Class before the Great War, 1985; The Exploration of Australia, 1987; Who Killed the Koories?, 1990; Melbourne after the Gold Rush, 1993; The Woman as Murderer: Five Who Paid with Their Lives, 1994; Perilous Voyages to the New Land, 1995; The Human Face of the Great Depression, 1996; That Disreputable Firm: The Inside Story of Slater & Gordon, 1998. EDITOR: (and intro) The Vagabond Papers, 1969; (and intro.) Our Beautiful Homes, NSW, c. 1977; (and intro.) the Vagabond (John Stanley James, Julian Thomas), Vagabond Country: Australian Bush and Town Life in the Victorian Age, 1981; (and intro.) S.T. Gill, The Victorian Gold Fields, 1852-53: An Original Album, 1982; (with I. MacFarlane) The Early Development of Melbourne, 1984; (and intro.) J. Chandler, Forty Years in the Wilderness, 1990; (with I. MacFarlane) The Crown, the Land, and the Squatter, 1835-1840, 1991; (and intro) Hold Page One: Memoirs of Monty Grover, Editor, 1993; (with P. Jones) Beginnings of Permanent Government; The Aborigines of Port Phillip, 1835-1839; Aborigines and Protectors, 1838-1839; (with I. MacFarlane) Communications, Trade, and Transport. Address: PO Box 149, Foster, VIC 3960, Australia.