Gold
by McCalman, Iain; Cook, Alexander; Reeves, AndrewFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-10-27
Publisher(s): Cambridge Univ Pr
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Part I | |
| Making an edgier history of gold | |
| 'The finger of God': gold's impact on New South Wales | |
| Gold-rush Melbourne | |
| Labour and trade unionism in Victorian goldmining: Bendigo, 1861-1915 | |
| Mullock heaps and tailing mounds: the environmental effects of alluvial goldmining | |
| 'Men of all nations, except Chinamen': Europeans and Chinese on the goldfields of New South Wales | |
| Undesirable persons: race and West Australian mining legislation | |
| Golden opportunities? Immigrant workers in Western Australia's eastern goldfields, 1900-65 | |
| Eyewitness? Drawings by Oscar of Cooktown | |
| Golden reflections: depictions of Aborigines on the North-West Australian goldfields | |
| Lasseter's stories: tending the ghosts of desert gold | |
| Isla del Oro: seeking New Guinea gold | |
| Jukurrpa - golden dreams | |
| Mrs Charles Clancy, Lola Montez and Poll the grogseller: glimpses of women on the early Victorian goldfields | |
| After the gold rush: material culture and settlement on Victoria's central goldfields | |
| Vegetable plots and pleasure gardens of the Victorian goldfields | |
| Edward Snell: sketching a fortune | |
| Antoine Fauchery: a French artist's view of the goldfields | |
| Cinderella's jewellery: the gold-rush brooches of Western Australia | |
| A broad brush dipped in gold: the expansion of Australian vision | |
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