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Author : Robert Caldwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Commerce
ISBN : OXFORD:N11165551
Author : David Goodman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0804724806
"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 : Jane Steen
Publisher : Aspidistra Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780995748439
A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family. 1881, Sussex. With a drowned husband—the second love lost—an overbearing family, no longed-for child, and the responsibility of a huge baroque mansion, it's not surprising Lady Helena Whitcombe is overwhelmed. When attractive, mysterious, French physician Armand Fortier disturbs her first weeks of mourning with his theory of murder, Helena's reluctant and ineffective attempts at investigation are hardly life-changing—until the resulting revival in her long-abandoned herbalist studies bring her into confrontation with her past and her family's. Can Lady Helena survive bereavement the second time around? Can she stand up to her six siblings' assumption of the right to control her new life as a widow? And what role will Fortier—who, as a physician, is a most unsuitable companion for an earl's daughter—play in her investigations? Every family has its secrets. The Scott-De Quincy family has more than most.
Author : Marion Littlejohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1875585966
Author : Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Public libraries
ISBN : UCAL:$C37060
Author : Fred Cahir
Publisher : Aboriginal History Monographs
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1921862955
This detailed examination of Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria provides striking evidence which demonstrates that Aboriginal people participated in gold mining and interacted with non-Aboriginal people in a range of hitherto neglected ways.
Author : Jay Monaghan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520323568
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.
Author : William Fairfax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Australia
ISBN : BSB:BSB10433434
Author : Clare Wright
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922148407
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? What if there were women and children right there beside them, inside the Stockade, when the bullets started to fly? And how do the answers to these questions change what we thought we knew about the so-called 'birth of Australian democracy'? Who, in fact, were the midwives to that precious delivery? Ten years in the research and writing, irrepressibly bold, entertaining and often irreverent in style, Clare Wright's The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of Ballarat - women who made Eureka a story for us all. Clare Wright is an historian who has worked as a political speechwriter, university lecturer, historical consultant and radio and television broadcaster. Her first book, Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia’s Female Publicans, garnered both critical and popular acclaim and her second, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, won the 2014 Stella Prize. She researched, wrote and presented the ABC TV documentary Utopia Girls and is the co-writer of the four-part series The War That Changed Us which screened on ABC1. 'Lively, incisive and timely, Clare Wright's account of the role of women in the Eureka Stockade is an engrossing read. Assembling a tapestry of voices that vividly illuminate the hardscrabble lives endured on Ballarat's muddy goldfields, this excellent book reveals a concealed facet of one of Australia's most famous incidences of colonial rebellion. For once, Peter Lalor isn't the hero: it's the women who are placed front and centre...The Forgotten Rebels links the actions of its heroines to the later fight for female suffrage, and will be of strong relevance to a contemporary female audience. Comprehensive and full of colour, this book will also be essential reading for devotees of Australian history.' Bookseller and Publisher 'This is a wonderful book. At last an Australian foundation story where women are not only found, but are found to have played a fundamental role.' Chris Masters 'Brilliantly researched and fun to read. An exhilarating new take on a story we thought we knew.' Brenda Niall 'Fascinating revelations. Beautifully told.' Peter FitzSimons ‘The best source on women at Eureka.’ Big Smoke
Author : Robert Cornelius V. Meyers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 133468555X
Excerpt from Victoria, Queen and Empress: The Mother of Kings, the Good Queen, the Devoted Wife, the Noble Woman; The Story of Britain's Golden Era The history of a queen is largely the history of the country over which she holds dominion. In nearly every instance the woman sinks into insignificance alongside the sovereign, and in all England's gal lery of woman rulers, whether as consorts of kings or queens in their own right, two names alone stand out in wisdom of government and strength of womanhood - Elizabeth and Victoria. Elizabeth lived in the age that was gold when she entered upon its troublesome paths. Poetry and the arts made up the glitter and the shine. Shakespeare, Spencer, the great architects and more than one painter created a glory whose halo has ever rested about the brow of the Virgin Queen, though she gave little admiration for these softer affairs of life. She was of a man-like build of character, a warrior, a conquer or; she was the last of the great Tudors, inheriting many of the traits of a house not always gentle, but always strong of will. She was a young woman when she ascended the throne not rightfully hers, and all through her life she was fearful of meeting a dreadful end. She knew craft and duplicity, she intrigued and manoeuvred to gain 'her ends which were not always of the noblest. She had a childhood passion for display and splendor, while her love of dress was phe nomenal even in an age when dress was elevated to the heights of a religion. There was scandal ever ready to take her name and use it for nefarious ends. Elizabeth united her people, she crushed the power of Rome in her kingdom. She stretched her sceptre over the sea and made Spain a suppliant Where it had been an arrogant rival. She established the Church of England and placed it on a firm founda tion, and this at a time when dogma took the place of religion, and when theology turned Christianity to one side. She was a strong woman and a ruler with the interests of her subjects at heart, but ever her own will foremost with her, and herself her queen. In point of length of reign she was fairly the rival of that other queen - Victoria. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Public Library of New South Wales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Australasia
ISBN : IOWA:31858014037919
Author : Public Library of New South Wales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Australasia
ISBN : UCAL:$C111573
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455997
Author : Jeanenne Bell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781440225260
Queen Victoria of Great Britain made a tremendous impact on the world, so much so that the era of her reign was given her name. Items from the Victorian period have a reputation for beauty and elegance, which is why they are such popular collectibles. This one-of-a-kind reference covers the beautiful jewelry of the Victorian Age, from 1837 to 1901. Gemologist C. Jeanenne Bell offers collectors this fascinating all-color exploration of the illustrious age and the elegant jewelry that is produced. Decade by decade, Bell reveals how the fashion of the time influenced the style of jewelry, and how innovations in manufacturing affected jewelry production. Jewelry listings provide current marketplace values, and also cover American and French jewelry styles from the time. Over 1,000 color pictures and illustrations convey the true beauty of Victorian era jewelry it produced.
Author : William Westgarth
Publisher : London : Smith, Elder
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN : UCAL:$B304892
Brief reference to impact of colonisation on Aboriginal population.
