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Gold : forgotten histories and lost objects of Australia / edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook, Andrew Reeves.

Gold : forgotten histories and lost objects of Australia / edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook, Andrew Reeves.
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ISBN 0521805953
Title Gold : forgotten histories and lost objects of Australia / edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook, Andrew Reeves.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Cambridge, Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Description iv, 344 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Note "Produced with the assistance of the National Museum of Australia, Canberra".
Bibliography Includes index and bibliographical references
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, 1900-1965 / 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.
Local note Edwards copy has a warning note loosely inserted, about Aboriginal customs regarding the recently deceased. Since the printing of the book, someone portrayed in it had died, so care and discretion should be used when using the book within Arnhem Land, Central Australia and Kimberley.
Subjects Gold mines and mining -- Australia
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Cook, Alexander
McCalman, Iain
Reeves, Andrew
Other Corporate Bodies National Museum of Australia
Call number NMA G 2001
EDWARDS 622.18410994 GOL
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A00176148 NMA G 2001
 National Museum of Australia publications   . Available to Museum Staff .  
A0076064X EDWARDS 622.18410994 GOL
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