| Author | : William Howitt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1858 |
| Genre | : Gold mines and mining |
| ISBN | : |
S.T. Gill & His Audiences
| Author | : Sasha Grishin |
| Publisher | : National Library of Australia |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2015-07-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0642278733 |
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.
Gold
| Author | : Iain McCalman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2001-03-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521805957 |
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.
Land, Labour and the Family in Southern Ghana
| Author | : Kojo Amanor |
| Publisher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9789171064684 |
This report is based on field work carried out in the Akyem Abuakwa area of the forest region of Ghana, a section of the country rich in agricultural land, gold, and diamonds. Through the field work which was undertaken and the empirical material generated, the author attempts to chart the processes and patterns of differentiation connected to land and land use in contemporary Ghana.
Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity
| Author | : Jairus Banaji |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2007-05-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0199226032 |
In a critique of Max Weber's influential ideas about the Mediterranean region in late antiquity, Jairus Banaji shows that the fourth to seventh centuries were in fact a period of major social and economic change, bound up with an expanding circulation of gold.
The Cultivation of Whiteness
| Author | : Warwick Anderson |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780822338406 |
A history of the role of biological theories in the construction and "protection" of whiteness in Australia from the first European settlement through World War II.
Bibliography of Australia
| Author | : John Alexander Ferguson |
| Publisher | : National Library Australia |
| Total Pages | : 1204 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9780642990495 |
Diggers, Hatters & Whores
| Author | : Stevan Eldred-Grigg |
| Publisher | : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2014-02-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1869797043 |
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
