Gold
Subtitle: forgotten histories and lost objects of Australia
By: edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook, and Andrew Reeves.
Contributors: McCalman, Iain.; Cook, Alexander, 1973-; Reeves, Andrew.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- History.; Australia -- Civilization -- 19th century.; Australia -- Civilization -- 20th century.; Australia -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects.
Description: The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago had profound effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples. In this book, a team of prominent historians and curators have collaborated to produce a cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I Gold and Modernity: The Impact of the Gold Rushes; title: on the Development of the Australian Colonies; title: 1 Making an Edgier History of Gold; title: DAVID GOODMAN 23; title: 2 'The Finger of God': Gold's Impact on New South Wales; title: PAUL A. PICKERING 37; title: 3 Gold-Rush Melbourne; title: GRAEME DAVISON 52; title: 4 Labour and Trade Unionism in Victorian Goldmining: Bendigo, 1861-1915; title: CHARLES FAHEY 67; title: 5 Mullock Heaps and Tailing Mounds: Environmental Effects of Alluvial; title: Goldmining; title: BARRY MCGOWAN 85; title: Part II Immigrants and Ethnic Relations; title: 6 'Men of All Nations, except Chinamen': Europeans and Chinese; title: on the Goldfields of New South Wales; title: ANN CURTHOYS 103; title: 7 Undesirable Persons: Race and West Australian Mining Legislation; title: PATRICK BERTOLA 124; title: 8 Golden Opportunities?: Immigrant Workers on Western Australia's Eastern; title: Goldfields, 1900-1965; title: BILL BUNBURY 141; title: Part III White Gold/Black Gold: Settler and Indigenous Histories of Goldmining; title: 9 Eyewitness?: Drawings by Oscar of Cooktown; title: KIM MCKENZIE AND CAROL COOPER 157; title: 10 Golden Reflections: Artists, Entrepreneurs and Aborigines on the North-West; title: Australian Goldfields; title: IAN COATES 164; title: 11 Lasseter's Stories: Tending the Ghosts of Desert Gold; title: DAVID RAFTERY 179; title: 12 Isla del Oro: Seeking New Guinea Gold; title: HANK NELSON 189; title: 13 Jukurrpa- Golden Dreams; title: DEREK ELIAS 207; title: Part IV Daily Life and Domestic Culture; title: 14 Mrs Charles Clacy, Lola Montez and Poll the Grogseller: Glimpses of Women; title: on the Early Victorian Goldfields; title: MARGARET ANDERSON 225; title: 15 After the Gold Rush: Material Culture and Settlement on Victoria's Central; title: Goldfields; title: SUSAN LAWRENCE 250; title: 16 Vegetable Plots and Pleasure Gardens of the Victorian Goldfields; title: SUZANNE R. HUNT 267; title: Part V Art, Visuality and Material Culture; title: 17 Edward Snell: Sketching a Fortune; title: TOM GRIFFITHS AND ALAN PLATT 285; title: 18 Antoine Fauchery: A French Artist's View of the Goldfields; title: DIANNE REILLY 299; title: 19 Cinderella's Jewellery: The Gold-Rush Brooches of Western Australia; title: DOROTHY ERICKSON 316; title: 20 A Broad Brush Dipped in Gold: The Expansion of Australian Vision; title: ANITA CALLAWAY 326; title: Index 339.