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.
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Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia150 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. In this book, a team of prominent historians and curators have collaborated to produce an innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society.
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The discovery of the Victorian Gold Fields has converted a remote dependency into a country of world-wide fame; it has attracted a population extraordinary in number, with unprecedented rapidity; it has enhanced the value of property to an enormous extent; it has made this the richest country in the world; and, in less than three years, it has done for this Colony the work of an age and made its impulses felt in the most distant regions of the earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sludge question, goldmining industry, other goldfields, alluvial mining, eastern goldfields, moving panorama, quartz mining, instant cities, gold towns, white miners Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sydney Morning Herald, Western Australia, New Guinea, Tanami Desert, West Australian, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne University Press, Bendigo Advertiser, Legislative Council, Archives Office, Legislative Assembly, World War, Lambing Flat, National Library of Australia, Alice Springs, Gold Commissioner, Dolly's Creek, Lands In Letters, Northern Territory, San Francisco, Bendigo Independent, South Australia, Miners Union, Native Police, Bathurst Free Press New!
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The discovery of the Victorian Gold Fields has converted a remote dependency into a country of world-wide fame; it has attracted a population extraordinary in number, with unprecedented rapidity; it has enhanced the value of property to an enormous extent; it has made this the richest country in the world; and, in less than three years, it has done for this Colony the work of an age and made its impulses felt in the most distant regions of the earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sludge question, goldmining industry, other goldfields, alluvial mining, eastern goldfields, moving panorama, quartz mining, instant cities, gold towns, white miners Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sydney Morning Herald, Western Australia, New Guinea, Tanami Desert, West Australian, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne University Press, Bendigo Advertiser, Legislative Council, Archives Office, Legislative Assembly, World War, Lambing Flat, National Library of Australia, Alice Springs, Gold Commissioner, Dolly's Creek, Lands In Letters, Northern Territory, San Francisco, Bendigo Independent, South Australia, Miners Union, Native Police, Bathurst Free Press New!
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- A New Britannia: An Argument Concerning the Social Origins of Australian Radicalism and Nationalism (Pelican) by Humphrey McQueen in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- A Short History of Australia (Mentor) by Manning Clark in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 3
- The Fortunes of Mary Fortune (Penguin Australian Women's Library) on page 138, page 156, and page 157
- A History of Australia by Manning Clark in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 3
- A History of Australia: Volumes I & II: From Earliest Times to 1838 by Manning Clark in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 3
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- Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by Eleanor C. Casella on page 297, and page 298
- Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by Eleanor C. Casella on page 297, and page 298
- Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel by Jordana Pomeroy on page 138, and Back Matter
- Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians (Objects/Histories) by Jane Lydon in Back Matter
- Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and License in the Eighteenth-Century by Peter Cryle in Front Matter
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