Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia

by Edited by Iain McCalman , Alexander Cook , Andrew Reeves

• ISBN13: 9780521805957
• ISBN10: 0521805953
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. Immigrants flooded in from Asia and Europe, and 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 a cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society. This fascinating book will add a new dimension to previously recorded Australian history, and provide a richer understanding of the foundations of Australian culture. Like a handful of tailings, Gold brings together a collection of stories that have been left out of standard Australian histories. It is an essential history.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Acknowledgements	x
List of contributors	xi
List of conversions	xiv
Introduction	1	(22)
Iain McCalman
Alexander Cook
Andrew Reeves
Part I Gold and Modernity: The Impact of the Gold Rushes on the Development of the Australian Colonies
Making an Edgier History of Gold	23	(14)
David Goodman
`The Finger of God': Gold's Impact on New South Wales	37	(15)
Paul A. Pickering
Gold-Rush Melbourne	52	(15)
Graeme Davison
Labour and Trade Unionism in Victorian Goldmining: Bendigo, 1861-1915	67	(18)
Charles Fahey
Mullock Heaps and Tailing Mounds: Environmental Effects of Alluvial Goldmining	85	(18)
Barry McGowan
Part II Immigrants and Ethnic Relations
`Men of All Nations, except Chinamen': Europeans and Chinese on the Goldfields of New South Wales	103	(21)
Ann Curthoys
Undesirable Persons: Race and West Australian Mining Legislation	124	(17)
Patrick Bertola
Golden Opportunities?: Immigrant Workers on Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields, 1900-1965	141	(16)
Bill Bunbury
Part III White Gold/Black Gold: Settler and Indigenous Histories of Goldmining
Eyewitness?: Drawings by Oscar of Cooktown	157	(7)
Kim McKenzie
Carol Cooper
Golden Reflections: Artists, Entrepreneurs and Aborigines on the North-West Australian Goldfields	164	(15)
Ian Coates
Lasseter's Stories: Tending the Ghosts of Desert Gold	179	(10)
David Raftery
Isla del Oro: Seeking New Guinea Gold	189	(18)
Hank Nelson
Jukurrpa - Golden Dreams	207	(43)
Derek Elias
Part IV Daily Life and Domestic Culture
Mrs Charles Clacy, Lola Montez and Poll the Grogseller: Glimpses of Women on the Early Victorian Goldfields	225	(25)
Margaret Anderson
After the Gold Rush: Material Culture and Settlement on Victoria's Central Goldfields	250	(17)
Susan Lawrence
Vegetable Plots and Pleasure Gardens of the Victorian Goldfields	267	(18)
Suzanne R. Hunt
Part V Art, Visuality and Material Culture
Edward Snell: Sketching a Fortune	285	(14)
Tom Griffiths
Alan Platt
Antoine Fauchery: A French Artist's View of the Goldfields	299	(17)
Dianne Reilly
Cinderella's Jewellery: The Gold-Rush Brooches of Western Australia	316	(10)
Dorothy Erickson
A Broad Brush Dipped in Gold: The Expansion of Australian Vision	326	(13)
Anita Callaway
Index	339