The Australian Gold Rushes

Author : Benjamin Mountford,Stephen Tuffnell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520967588

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A Global History of Gold Rushes by Benjamin Mountford,Stephen Tuffnell Pdf

Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.

Author : David Hill
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781864711301

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The Gold Rush by David Hill Pdf

David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to late-1800s, people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, including two future prime ministers of Great Britain and Australia, threw off their previous pursuits and made the often perilous journey to the goldfields, from where they would return either fabulously wealthy or demoralised and broken - if they returned at all.

Author : B. J. Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9020077546

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The Australian Gold Rushes by B. J. Price Pdf

Author : John Woodland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317094265

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Money Pits: British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s by John Woodland Pdf

Between 1849 and 1853 shares in nearly 120 public companies to exploit the booming goldfields of California and Australia were offered to the British public. The companies were collectively capitalised at over £15 million, but in the end only some £1.75 million was actually raised between 42 of them, with only one company surviving what the newspapers of the day described as a ’gold bubble’. This book provides an overview of the entire bubble event, its antecedents and its outcomes. A number of researchers have investigated an earlier boom in the mid-1820s to reopen gold and silver mines in Latin America and several have studied individual company operations of that period. This is the first detailed investigation of the British gold bubble companies of the 1850s and their involvement in the almost simultaneous gold rushes on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

Author : Douglas Fetherling,George Fetherling
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802080464

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The Gold Crusades by Douglas Fetherling,George Fetherling Pdf

Among the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat - only to set in motion the diamond and gold rushes that transformed southern Africa. And so it went. Most previous historians of the gold rushes have tended to view them as acts of spontaneous nationalism. Each country likes to see its own gold rush as the one that either shaped those that followed or epitomized all the rest. In The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929, Douglas Fetherling takes a different approach. Fetherling argues that the gold rushes in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same causes and results, the same characters and characteristics. He posits that they were in fact a single discontinuous event, an expression of the British imperial experience and nineteenth-century liberalism. He does so with dash and style and with a sharp eye for the telling anecdote, the out-of-the-way document, and the bold connection between seemingly unrelated disciplines. Originally published by Macmillan of Canada, 1988.

Author : Nancy Keesing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Australia
ISBN : OCLC:217362230

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History of the Australian Gold Rushes by Nancy Keesing Pdf

Author : Barry John Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0582706319

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The Australian Gold Rushes by Barry John Price Pdf

Author : Eli Daniel Potts,Annette Potts
Publisher : St. Lucia, Q. : University of Queensland Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Americans
ISBN : UCAL:B3820989

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Young America and Australian Gold by Eli Daniel Potts,Annette Potts Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Australia
ISBN : 8000008858

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History of the Australian Gold Rushes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hordern House (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0958847894

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Gold by Hordern House (Firm) Pdf

Author : Ann Parry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1420297805

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The Discovery of Gold by Ann Parry Pdf

This series brings colonial history to life by presenting different perspectives on the people and places of the Australian gold rushes.

Author : Jim Richards
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781925164022

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Gold Rush by Jim Richards Pdf

When young Jim Richards left the army to make to chase a dream, he had no language skills, no money and no idea, just the kind of gold lust that has driven fortune hunters throughout history. And when he struck gold and diamonds in the remote rivers of Guyana, his problems and his success grew in equal measure. Jim Richards has done it all: dived for diamonds in the piranha-infested rivers of South America; discovered a fabulously rich goldmine in the Australian outback; got caught up in the world's biggest mining scam in Indonesia; and even started a gold rush in the war-torn jungles of Laos.

Author : Anne McCormick,Derek McDonnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN : 0095884785

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Gold by Anne McCormick,Derek McDonnell Pdf

Author : David Goodman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0804724806

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Gold Seeking by David Goodman Pdf

"The brave independence of the 'roaring days', the camaraderie of the gold fields, jolly diggers on a spree - these are the images that have come down to us of the gold era of the 1850s in Australia and California. But these images were largely shaped decades later, by writers such as Henry Lawson and Bret Harte - they speak of later nostalgia rather than the experience of the time." "In this study of the contemporary response to the discoveries of gold in Victoria and California, David Goodman argues that people at the time were apprehensive about gold rushing, and the kind of society it seemed to prefigure. In the chaos of the gold rushes, individual self-interest seemed to be all that could motivate people to any exertion. And it was only the economic rationalists of the day - those who believed in political economy and its promise, that out of the confusion of individual self-interest would come some sort of social order - who could wholeheartedly endorse the gold rushes as events." "This is a history of the ways people talked about gold. As the first full-length cultural history of the gold rushes on two continents, it examines the meanings of gold at the time, and the narratives which were told about social disruption. It locates the deeper underlying themes in the response to gold. It also looks at the ways in which the dominant later memories of gold were shaped. And it is about national differences, about the construction of distinctive national cultures out of materials common to the British world. This book should be read not only by Australian and American historians but by anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Jay Monaghan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Australians and the Gold Rush by Jay Monaghan Pdf