The Welsh in an Australian Gold Town

by Tyler, Robert Llewellyn

• ISBN13: 9780708322666
• ISBN10: 0708322662
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-15
• Publisher: Univ of Wales Pr

Summary

This book's focus is the Welsh immigrant community in the Ballarat/Sebastopol gold mining district of Victoria, Australia during the second half of the nineteenth century. The book provides an analysis of a Welsh community as it existed in this particular area And The ways in which this society was forced to change and adapt during this time.

Author Biography

Robert Llewellyn Tyler was born in Newport in the south-east of Wales and has lived and worked in the USA, Japan, Argentina and Australia. He has recently spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at Westminster College in the United States, teaching, lecturing and continuing his research on the Welsh overseas.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xiii
List of Maps and Illustrations	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Settlement Patterns	p. 7
Occupation	p. 18
Language	p. 34
Religion	p. 55
Cultural Institutions	p. 76
Villains, Whores, Drunkards and British Imperialists	p. 101
Assimilation	p. 123
Conclusion	p. 145
	p. 148
	p. 152
	p. 153
Notes	p. 156
Bibliography	p. 188
Index	p. 201
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