Author: William Howitt
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Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Iain McCalman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521805957
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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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.

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Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Author: Sasha Grishin
Publisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 0642278733
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia’s most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ basking in the glow of the gold rushes. He worked in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales and left some of the most memorable images of urban and rural life in colonial Australia. A passionate defender of Indigenous Australians and of the environment, Gill in his art celebrated the emerging quintessential Australian character. This is the first major comprehensive book to be devoted to Gill and presents a radical reassessment of one of the most important figures in Australian colonial art and reproduces, in some instances for the first time, some of the most startling images from nineteenth-century Australian art. There will be an exhibition of S.T. Gill’s work at the State Library of Victoria in July 2015 and at the National Library of Australia in June 2016, plus smaller shows in regional Victorian galleries. In association with the State Library of Victoria.

Author: Guy Puzey
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1783094931
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 459

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This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of onomastic enquiry. Naming practices are viewed here through a critical lens, demonstrating a high level of political and social engagement in relation to how we name people and places. The contributors to this publication examine why names are not only symbols of a person or place, but also manifestations of cultural, linguistic and social heritage in their own right. Presenting analyses of geographically and culturally diverse perspectives and case studies, the book investigates how names can represent deeper kinds of identity, act as objects of attachment and dependence, and reflect community mores and social customs while functioning as powerful mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. The book will be of interest to researchers in onomastics, sociology, human geography, linguistics and history.

Author: William Howitt
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1568

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Author: Baden Powell
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Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: Canada. Library of Parliament
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1088

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