Gold

Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia

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Paperback | 27 October 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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. Immigrants flooded in from Asia and Europe, and the population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting. In the most unexpected ways, gold has shaped modern Australia. In this book, first published in 2001, a team of Australia's most prominent historians and curators have collaborated to produce a cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society. Like a handful of tailings, Gold brings together a collection of stories that have been left out of standard Australian histories. In between runs a critical analysis of the relationship between gold and social change, race relations, gender, the environment, entertainment and industry.

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Review of the hardback: 'Gold is lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced, and will prove a most useful adornment to most academic bookshelves ... it embroiders the mainstream story with a wealth of stimulating and useful contextual material, and this establishes it as a valuable teaching tool, and a most readable highly recommended text.' The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Review of the hardback: 'The volume is handsomely illustrated ... often evocative ... analysis is enriched by contributions from archaeologists and art historians, and by micro studies of visual sources ... collection thus represents in microcosm the preoccupations of many historians in Australia today ...' The Round Table

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History Australasian & Pacific History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Economics Economic History

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Published: 12th March 2001

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Part I
Making an edgier history of gold
'The finger of God': gold's impact on New South Wales
Gold-rush Melbourne
Labour and trade unionism in Victorian goldmining: Bendigo, 1861-1915
Mullock heaps and tailing mounds: the environmental effects of alluvial goldmining

'Men of all nations, except Chinamen': Europeans and Chinese on the goldfields of New South Wales
Undesirable persons: race and West Australian mining legislation
Golden opportunities? Immigrant workers in Western Australia's eastern goldfields, 1900-65

Eyewitness? Drawings by Oscar of Cooktown
Golden reflections: depictions of Aborigines on the North-West Australian goldfields
Lasseter's stories: tending the ghosts of desert gold
Isla del Oro: seeking New Guinea gold
Jukurrpa - golden dreams

Mrs Charles Clancy, Lola Montez and Poll the grogseller: glimpses of women on the early Victorian goldfields
After the gold rush: material culture and settlement on Victoria's central goldfields
Vegetable plots and pleasure gardens of the Victorian goldfields

Edward Snell: sketching a fortune
Antoine Fauchery: a French artist's view of the goldfields
Cinderella's jewellery: the gold-rush brooches of Western Australia
A broad brush dipped in gold: the expansion of Australian vision
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