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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 9781107403536 (pbk.)
Title Gold : forgotten histories and lost objects of Australia / edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook, Andrew Reeves.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2001.
Description xiv, 344 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Note Originally published: 2001.
Produced with the assistance of the National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subjects Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Australia
Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- History
Australia -- History -- 1788-1900
Australia -- History -- 20th century
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons McCalman, Iain
Cook, Alexander, 1973 -
Reeves, Andrew
Call number 622.18410994 GOL
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