Gold
Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia
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- Editors:
- Iain McCalman, Australian National University, Canberra
- Alexander Cook, King's College, Cambridge
- Andrew Reeves, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
- Date Published: October 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107403536
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A team of prominent historians and curators have produced this innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society. Throughout history, gold has been the "stuff" of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. The population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting.
Read more- Lavishly illustrated with colour wraps and halftones throughout
- Vivid, readable stories that will appeal to general readers
- An innovative and entertaining history of Australian culture
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- Date Published: October 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107403536
- length: 394 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I:
1. Making an edgier history of gold David Goodman
2. 'The finger of God': gold's impact on New South Wales Paul Pickering
3. Gold-rush Melbourne Graeme Davison
4. Labour and trade unionism in Victorian goldmining: Bendigo, 1861–1915 Charles Fahey
5. Mullock heaps and tailing mounds: the environmental effects of alluvial goldmining Barry McGowan
Part II:
6. 'Men of all nations, except Chinamen': Europeans and Chinese on the goldfields of New South Wales Ann Curthoys
7. Undesirable persons: race and West Australian mining legislation Patrick Bertola
8. Golden opportunities? Immigrant workers in Western Australia's eastern goldfields, 1900–65 Bill Bunbury
Part III:
9. Eyewitness? Drawings by Oscar of Cooktown Kim McKenzie and Carol Cooper
10. Golden reflections: depictions of Aborigines on the North-West Australian goldfields Ian Coates
11. Lasseter's stories: tending the ghosts of desert gold David Raftery
12. Isla del Oro: seeking New Guinea gold Hank Nelson
13. Jukurrpa - golden dreams Derek Elias
Part IV:
14. Mrs Charles Clancy, Lola Montez and Poll the grogseller: glimpses of women on the early Victorian goldfields Margaret Anderson
15. After the gold rush: material culture and settlement on Victoria's central goldfields Susan Lawrence
16. Vegetable plots and pleasure gardens of the Victorian goldfields Suzanne Hunt
Part V:
17. Edward Snell: sketching a fortune Tom Griffiths and Alan Platt
18. Antoine Fauchery: a French artist's view of the goldfields Dianne Reilly
19. Cinderella's jewellery: the gold-rush brooches of Western Australia Dorothy Erickson
20. A broad brush dipped in gold: the expansion of Australian vision Anita Callaway.-
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