Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia

by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook, Andrew Reeves

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521805957
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/12/2001
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	7.28(w) x 10.08(h) x 1.18(d)

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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"All the contributions are well written and documented." Earth Sciences History

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