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Book Memoirs of Gold digging in Australia

Download or read book Memoirs of Gold digging in Australia written by Seweryn Korzeliński and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical account of life on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s, told from a Polish perspective ; includes observations about and encounters with Aboriginal people.

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  • Author : 费晟著
  • Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
  • Release : 2021-11-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book written by 费晟著 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书利用环境史的新视角整合了之前零碎保存的史料,从近代西方殖民扩张及生态变化的角度探讨澳新历史变化的特点,突破了传统国别史研究中重视政治经济话题,从而容易忽略地缘上较为次要的大洋洲区域史的局限。书中以澳新华人移民的经历与命运为线索,展现全球资本主义及西方殖民扩张中人口交流、经济发展、环境变化以及文化冲突之间的复杂互动。

Book The Italians in Australia

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  • Author : Gianfranco Cresciani
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2003-08-27
  • ISBN : 9780521537780
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book The Italians in Australia written by Gianfranco Cresciani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 book brings to life the important story of the Italo-Australian community.

Book Riches for All

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  • Author : Kenneth N. Owens
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803235700
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Riches for All written by Kenneth N. Owens and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An event of international significance, the California gold rush created a more diverse, metropolitan society than the world had ever known. In Riches for All, leading scholars reexamine the gold rush, evaluating its trajectory and legacy within a global context of religion and race, economics, technology, law, and culture. The opportunity for instant wealth directly influenced a dynamic range of peoples, including Mormon military veterans, California Indian workers, both slave and free African Americans, Chinese village farmers, skilled Mexican miners, and Chilean merchants. Riches for All gives attention to the varying motivations and experiences of these groups and to their struggles with both racial and religious bigotry. Emphasizing gold rush social history, some contributors examine the roles and influence of women, workers, law-breakers, and law-enforcers. Others consider the long-term impact of this episode on California and the American West and on subsequent gold rushes in Pacific Rim countries and the Klondike. With lively and incisive strokes, these historians sketch the most broadly contextualized and nuanced portrait of the California gold rush to date.

Book Diggers  Hatters   Whores

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  • Author : Stevan Eldred-Grigg
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2014-02-28
  • ISBN : 1869797043
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book Diggers Hatters Whores written by Stevan Eldred-Grigg and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social history of New Zealand's gold rushes, as used by Eleanor Catton in her research for The Luminaries. A thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand. Based on sound scholarship and aimed at the general reader it's accessibly written in a clear, clean and lively style. The scope is the social history of the goldfields of colonial New Zealand, from the 1850s to the 1870s. The book opens with a survey of worldwide rushes in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, when for the first time in history a great wheeling movement of gold diggers began to revolve from continent to continent. The main body of the book looks at all the rushes, large and small, that took place in the colony: Coromandel, Golden Bay, Otago, Marlborough, the West Coast and Thames. The early chapters of the main body survey rushes chronologically; the later chapters look at rushes thematically. 'I owe a debt of gratitude to . . . Stevan Eldred-Grigg's history of the New Zealand gold rushes Diggers, hatters & whores.' Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

Book Needlework and Women   s Identity in Colonial Australia

Download or read book Needlework and Women s Identity in Colonial Australia written by Lorinda Cramer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing. Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the book examines how needlework's practice and products were vital in the contest for social position in the turmoil of the first two decades of the Victorian rush from 1851. Placing women firmly at the center of colonial history, it explores how the needle became a tool for stitching together identity. From decorative needlework to household making and mending, women's sewing was a vehicle for establishing, asserting, and maintaining social status. Interdisciplinary in scope, Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia draws on material culture, written primary sources, and pictorial evidence, to create a rich portrait of the objects and manners that defined genteel goldfields living. Giving voice to women's experiences and positioning them as key players in the fabric of gold-rush society, this volume offers a fresh critical perspective on gender and textile history.

Book Chinese in Australian Fiction  1888 1988

Download or read book Chinese in Australian Fiction 1888 1988 written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Out of Place

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  • Author : Philip Goldswain
  • Publisher : Apollo Books
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781742585543
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Out of Place written by Philip Goldswain and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores historical, geographical, and cultural factors that contribute to our understanding of places and settings of Australian transient communities. From Gwalia and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, Charters Towers in Queensland, Broken Hill in New South Wales, and Queenstown in Tasmania, the places provide opportunity to revisit sites of history from the different angles of architecture, landscape theory, social history, and visual arts. They also provide a springboard for thinking through the pressing issues of contemporary Australians and counterparts in other 'post-settler' societies. [Subject: Australian Studies, History]

Book Croatians in Australia

Download or read book Croatians in Australia written by Ilija Šutalo and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilija Sutalo has given us a detailed and fascinating insight into Croatian settlers from the 1800s to the present, the likes of which has never before been attempted. Yet Croatians have been here for 150 years, and, by the 1930s, were well organised and conscious of their heritage. A people without whom Australia could not have developed and grown.

Book The Gold Crusades

Download or read book The Gold Crusades written by Douglas Fetherling and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-12-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat – only to set in motion the diamond and gold rushes that transformed southern Africa. And so it went. Most previous historians of the gold rushes have tended to view them as acts of spontaneous nationalism. Each country likes to see its own gold rush as the one that either shaped those that followed or epitomized all the rest. In The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929, Douglas Fetherling takes a different approach. Fetherling argues that the gold rushes in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same causes and results, the same characters and characteristics. He posits that they were in fact a single discontinuous event, an expression of the British imperial experience and nineteenth-century liberalism. He does so with dash and style and with a sharp eye for the telling anecdote, the out-of-the-way document, and the bold connection between seemingly unrelated disciplines. Originally published by Macmillan of Canada, 1988.

Book Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph Renbe Bellot

Download or read book Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph Renbe Bellot written by Joseph Renbe Bellot and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the second voyage of the "Prince Albert" commanded by William Kennedy.

Book Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third  1782 1788

Download or read book Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third 1782 1788 written by Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Duke of Buckingham and Chandos and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The European Diaspora in Australia

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  • Author : Bruno Mascitelli
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2016-05-11
  • ISBN : 1443894192
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book The European Diaspora in Australia written by Bruno Mascitelli and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a contemporary reflection on the journey of many former European communities that migrated to Australia in the post-war period and their stories of settlement, assimilation and integration. The chapters provide perspectives from a range of disciplines and approaches across different communities. There are common themes that emerge, as well as unique issues which define these communities.

Book Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third  1806 1820

Download or read book Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third 1806 1820 written by Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Duke of Buckingham and Chandos and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 347 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

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  • Author : Iain McCalman
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2001-03-12
  • ISBN : 9780521805957
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Gold written by Iain McCalman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. The population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting. In this book, a team of prominent historians and curators have collaborated to produce an innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society.