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Book Australians and the Gold Rush

Download or read book Australians and the Gold Rush written by Jay Monaghan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gold Rush

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.

Book Australians and the Gold Rush

Download or read book Australians and the Gold Rush written by Jay Monaghan and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Young America and Australian Gold

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:

Book Money Pits  British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s

Download or read book Money Pits British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s written by Dr John Woodland and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-12-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1849 and 1853 shares in nearly 120 public companies to exploit the booming goldfields of California and Australia were offered to the British public. The companies were collectively capitalised at over £15 million, but in the end only some £1.75 million was actually raised between 42 of them, with only one company surviving what the newspapers of the day described as a ‘gold bubble’. This book provides an overview of the entire bubble event, its antecedents and its outcomes. A number of researchers have investigated an earlier boom in the mid-1820s to reopen gold and silver mines in Latin America and several have studied individual company operations of that period. This is the first detailed investigation of the British gold bubble companies of the 1850s and their involvement in the almost simultaneous gold rushes on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

Book A Global History of Gold Rushes

Download or read book A Global History of Gold Rushes written by Benjamin Mountford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.

Book Gold Down Under

Download or read book Gold Down Under written by Marian T. Place and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gold Rush

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  • Author : Jim Richards
  • Publisher : Fremantle Press
  • Release : 2016-09-01
  • ISBN : 1925164020
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Gold Rush written by Jim Richards and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When young Jim Richards left the army to make to chase a dream, he had no language skills, no money and no idea, just the kind of gold lust that has driven fortune hunters throughout history. And when he struck gold and diamonds in the remote rivers of Guyana, his problems and his success grew in equal measure. Jim Richards has done it all: dived for diamonds in the piranha-infested rivers of South America; discovered a fabulously rich goldmine in the Australian outback; got caught up in the world's biggest mining scam in Indonesia; and even started a gold rush in the war-torn jungles of Laos.

Book Gold Down Under

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marian Templeton Place
  • Publisher : Atheneum
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN : 9780027744408
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Gold Down Under written by Marian Templeton Place and published by Atheneum. This book was released on 1969 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates how the Gold Rush in California led Edward Hargraves to discover gold in Australia and traces the subsequent frantic period of Australian history.

Book Black Gold

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  • Author : Fred Cahir
  • Publisher : Aboriginal History Monographs
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781921862953
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Black Gold written by Fred Cahir and published by Aboriginal History Monographs. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed examination of Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria provides striking evidence which demonstrates that Aboriginal people participated in gold mining and interacted with non-Aboriginal people in a range of hitherto neglected ways.

Book Gold  Off to the Diggings

Download or read book Gold Off to the Diggings written by Geoff Hocking and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gold Rush

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  • Author : Karin Cox
  • Publisher : Young Reed
  • Release : 2018-01-08
  • ISBN : 9781921580383
  • Pages : 47 pages

Download or read book Gold Rush written by Karin Cox and published by Young Reed. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishers by New Holland Publishers

Book Gold Rush Journeys

Download or read book Gold Rush Journeys written by Ann Parry and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series brings colonial history to life by presenting different perspectives on the people and places of the Australian gold rushes.

Book Australian Gold Rush   Another Birth of the Australian Nation

Download or read book Australian Gold Rush Another Birth of the Australian Nation written by Daniel Lennartz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2008 in the subject History - Australia, Oceania, grade: 100/100 Pkt, , language: English, abstract: This essay deals with the ‘Gold Rush' in Australia at the middle of the 19th century, which nowadays, according the public opinion, belongs to the nation’s folklore, and pursue the question how the history of Australia has been influenced by this ‘Gold Rush’. Those effects of the gold fever are divided into three aspects which are intertwined with each other: population balance, law and an emerging national identity. It shall be shown how these three issues are caused by the discovery of gold and are mutually dependent.

Book Money Pits  British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s

Download or read book Money Pits British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s written by John Woodland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1849 and 1853 shares in nearly 120 public companies to exploit the booming goldfields of California and Australia were offered to the British public. The companies were collectively capitalised at over £15 million, but in the end only some £1.75 million was actually raised between 42 of them, with only one company surviving what the newspapers of the day described as a ’gold bubble’. This book provides an overview of the entire bubble event, its antecedents and its outcomes. A number of researchers have investigated an earlier boom in the mid-1820s to reopen gold and silver mines in Latin America and several have studied individual company operations of that period. This is the first detailed investigation of the British gold bubble companies of the 1850s and their involvement in the almost simultaneous gold rushes on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

Book Gold Seeking

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  • Author : David Goodman
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780804724807
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Gold Seeking written by David Goodman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The brave independence of the 'roaring days', the camaraderie of the gold fields, jolly diggers on a spree - these are the images that have come down to us of the gold era of the 1850s in Australia and California. But these images were largely shaped decades later, by writers such as Henry Lawson and Bret Harte - they speak of later nostalgia rather than the experience of the time." "In this study of the contemporary response to the discoveries of gold in Victoria and California, David Goodman argues that people at the time were apprehensive about gold rushing, and the kind of society it seemed to prefigure. In the chaos of the gold rushes, individual self-interest seemed to be all that could motivate people to any exertion. And it was only the economic rationalists of the day - those who believed in political economy and its promise, that out of the confusion of individual self-interest would come some sort of social order - who could wholeheartedly endorse the gold rushes as events." "This is a history of the ways people talked about gold. As the first full-length cultural history of the gold rushes on two continents, it examines the meanings of gold at the time, and the narratives which were told about social disruption. It locates the deeper underlying themes in the response to gold. It also looks at the ways in which the dominant later memories of gold were shaped. And it is about national differences, about the construction of distinctive national cultures out of materials common to the British world. This book should be read not only by Australian and American historians but by anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Welsh in an Australian Gold Town

Download or read book The Welsh in an Australian Gold Town written by Robert Llewellyn Tyler and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book’s focus is the Welsh immigrant community in the Ballarat/Sebastopol gold mining district of Victoria, Australia during the second half of the nineteenth century. The book provides an analysis of a Welsh community as it existed in a particular area and the ways in which it changed during a specific period of time and considers all aspects of the Welsh immigrant experience.