Author: Seweryn Korzeliński
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Autobiographical account of life on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s, told from a Polish perspective ; includes observations about and encounters with Aboriginal people.
Memoirs of Gold-digging in Australia
Author: Seweryn Korzeliński
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Autobiographical account of life on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s, told from a Polish perspective ; includes observations about and encounters with Aboriginal people.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Autobiographical account of life on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s, told from a Polish perspective ; includes observations about and encounters with Aboriginal people.
The Italians in Australia
Author: Gianfranco Cresciani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521537780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This 2003 book brings to life the important story of the Italo-Australian community.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521537780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This 2003 book brings to life the important story of the Italo-Australian community.
Not a Poor Man's Field
Author: Michael Waterhouse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781920831837
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Between the wars, New Guinea goldfields attracted colourful characters, and yielded great riches to those who could afford to exploit them. The book also discusses Australias colonial experience under the League of Nations Mandate.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781920831837
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Between the wars, New Guinea goldfields attracted colourful characters, and yielded great riches to those who could afford to exploit them. The book also discusses Australias colonial experience under the League of Nations Mandate.
Riches for All
Author: Kenneth N. Owens
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803235700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803235700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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.
Diggers, Hatters & Whores
Author: Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1869797043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
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
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1869797043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
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
Needlework and Women’s Identity in Colonial Australia
Author: Lorinda Cramer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350069639
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350069639
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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.
Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888-1988
Author:
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969649
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969649
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Croatians in Australia
Author: Ilija Šutalo
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 9781862546516
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 9781862546516
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Out of Place
Author: Philip Goldswain
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742585543
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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]
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742585543
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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]
Memoirs of Lieutenant ... with His Journal of a Voyage in the Polar Seas in Search of Sir John Franklin, 2
Author: Joseph René Bellot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description