Download or read book American Fever Australian Gold written by H. Denise McMahon and published by H.D. McMahon & C.G. Wild. This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors' research concentrated on the daily lives of Americans and Canadians who came to Australia during the gold rush years, and were at some point in northeast Victoria, the majority of who have not been previously recorded in history books. The authors gained much of their data from old newspapers, letters and diaries of the times, unearthing history on the region and the men themselves that has never before been revealed."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Young America and Australian Gold written by Eli Daniel Potts and published by St. Lucia, Q. : University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Fever History of the Australian Gold Rushes by Those who Were There Edited by Nancy Keesing written by Nancy Keesing and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William and Mary Brickell written by Beth Brickell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the streets and buildings that now bear the name Brickell is the rich history of William and Mary Brickell, who worked alongside Julia Tuttle and Henry Flagler to found Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Hollywood writer and director Beth Brickell has uncovered the history of this dynamic couple, from William's origins in Ohio to his adventures in the California and Australian gold rushes and marriage to Mary. This never-before-told story reveals both disappointment and triumph as these two pioneers clashed with Flagler and John D. Rockefeller during the robber baron days of the oil industry and finally tamed the wilderness of South Florida.
Download or read book History of the Australian Gold Rushes written by Nancy Keesing and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Australian Gold Rushes written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold written by David Hill and published by William Heinemann. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Australia's incredible gold rushes of the mid-tolate-1800s produced tremendous wealth and ensured the financial survival of the struggling Australian colonies. Noth only that, but they also tripled the country's small population, were the last nail in the coffin for convict transportation, subverted the hierarchical British class system, laid the foundations of the Australian egalitarian ethos and stimulated the democratic ideas that led to the establishment of the nation of Australia. -- back cover.
Download or read book Gold Fever written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1994 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Fever! tells the experiences of the men and women who flocked to the Australian goldfields in the early 1850s. The publication deals with the earliest phase of the Australian gold-rushes, beginning with Edward Hammond Hargraves’ discovery of gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, in February 1851. By 1855, at the end of the period treated in Gold Fever!, the eastern Australian colonies had been transformed by the search for gold.
Download or read book Not Your Usual Gold Stories written by Peter Macinnis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Australian children are given an account of the chase for gold in Australia that runs like this: Nobody knew there was gold in Australia, Edward Hammond Hargraves discovered gold in New South Wales in 1851, and then the rushes began.This is false history. The first claim of a 'gold mine' was a fraud in 1788; the first real gold find was in 1824; the first working gold mine was in South Australia in 1843; a shepherd, Hugh M'Gregor regularly sold gold in Sydney in the 1840s; the first gold rush was in Victoria in 1849, but the authorities choked it off; and Hargraves never discovered gold.What Hargraves did was to provoke a gold rush that could not be stopped, by declaring that there was gold over wide area, stretching from the site of the 1824 find to where M'Gregor was collecting gold.This book details all of those matters, and many more, explaining the psychology of gold rushes, the technicalities of finding gold, and the true costs of gold fever. While it mainly deals with the Australian situation, there are many comparisons with overseas situations, from Prague, the Middle East and the Americas: this is a world history with a strong Australian bias.It is also a starting point for scholars, because the sources are meticulously recorded, and at last count, there were 236 web links, because in this increasingly internet-crazy world, people want those links to books and contemporary newspaper accounts.
Download or read book Multicultural America written by Carlos E. Cortés and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 4420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive title is among the first to extensively use newly released 2010 U.S. Census data to examine multiculturalism today and tomorrow in America. This distinction is important considering the following NPR report by Eyder Peralta: "Based on the first national numbers released by the Census Bureau, the AP reports that minorities account for 90 percent of the total U.S. growth since 2000, due to immigration and higher birth rates for Latinos." According to John Logan, a Brown University sociologist who has analyzed most of the census figures, "The futures of most metropolitan areas in the country are contingent on how attractive they are to Hispanic and Asian populations." Both non-Hispanic whites and blacks are getting older as a group. "These groups are tending to fade out," he added. Another demographer, William H. Frey with the Brookings Institution, told The Washington Post that this has been a pivotal decade. "We’re pivoting from a white-black-dominated American population to one that is multiracial and multicultural." Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia explores this pivotal moment and its ramifications with more than 900 signed entries not just providing a compilation of specific ethnic groups and their histories but also covering the full spectrum of issues flowing from the increasingly multicultural canvas that is America today. Pedagogical elements include an introduction, a thematic reader’s guide, a chronology of multicultural milestones, a glossary, a resource guide to key books, journals, and Internet sites, and an appendix of 2010 U.S. Census Data. Finally, the electronic version will be the only reference work on this topic to augment written entries with multimedia for today’s students, with 100 videos (with transcripts) from Getty Images and Video Vault, the Agence France Press, and Sky News, as reviewed by the media librarian of the Rutgers University Libraries, working in concert with the title’s editors.
Download or read book Gold Fever written by A. I. Lake and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the origins of the California Gold Rush that began in 1848, the individuals and mining techniques involved, and the resulting wealth, destruction, and tragedy.
Download or read book Sludge written by Peter Davies and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating, troubling legacy of the gold rush. Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, engulfing it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains? Victorians had a name for this mining waste: ‘sludge’. Sludge submerged Victoria’s best grapevines near Bendigo, filled Laanecoorie Reservoir on the Loddon River and flowed down from Beechworth over thousands of hectares of rich agricultural land. Children and animals drowned in sludge lakes. Mining effluent contaminated three-quarters of Victoria’s creeks and rivers. Sludge is the compelling story of the forgotten filth that plagued nineteenth-century Victoria. It exposes the big dirty secret of Victoria’s mining history – the way it transformed the state’s water and land, and how the battle against sludge helped lay the ground for the modern environmental movement. ‘Sludge is a fascinating, entangled story of human endeavour and environmental destruction. An exciting and timely reminder that history is a dirty business, precisely because it oozes its way into the present.’ —Clare Wright ‘Sludge, slurry, slickens or porridge: call it what you will, mining waste made a mess of Victoria’s environment. In Sludge, Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies carefully investigate this murky history of greed, mismanagement, reform and forgetting. It is a gripping account of an environmental catastrophe, and it vividly conveys the long-term costs of short-term gains.’—Billy Griffiths ‘This is the book about the goldfields I most wanted to read but didn’t think could be written. It’s a remarkable achievement.’—Tom Griffiths ‘If Victorians dreamed of glittering gold, what they got was a tidal wave of sludge that covered the land like a poisonous blanket and made the rivers run thick as gruel. Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies vividly recreate the forgotten landscapes of nineteenth-century Victoria, revealing how people and mining destroyed the country that nurtured them, and how that silent legacy is still with us today. Here is a powerful parable, a work of brilliant rediscovery and a wakeup call for our own times.’ —Grace Karskens
Download or read book A Guide to British and American Novels written by Percy Russell and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Fever written by Rosalyn Schanzer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses lighthearted illustrations and excerpts from letters, journals, and newspaper articles to relate the story of the California Gold Rush of 1848. Full color.
Download or read book The Gold Rush written by David Hill and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to late-1800s, people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, including two future prime ministers of Great Britain and Australia, threw off their previous pursuits and made the often perilous journey to the goldfields, from where they would return either fabulously wealthy or demoralised and broken - if they returned at all.
Download or read book The Australian and Californian Gold Discoveries written by Patrick James Stirling and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter xviii discusses the Australian gold fields and the economic consequences of the mining of gold in Australia Includes bibliographical references.
