Gold
Subtitle: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia
Contributors: Iain McCalman (Editor); Alexander Cook (Editor); Andrew Reeves (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780521805957
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history: c 1750 to c 1900; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Civilization; History; History - General History; History: World; Australia; Gold discoveries; Australia & New Zealand - Australia; Australia--Civilization--19th century; History / Australia & Oceania; 19th century; World - General; Gold mines and mining
First sentence: 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.