Rushing for Gold: Life and Commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand and Australia - Couverture souple

Carpenter Lloyd Fraser Lyndon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1877578541 ISBN 13 : 9781877578540

Editeur : Otago University Press, 2016

Synopsis

This is the first book to take a trans-Tasman look at the nineteenth-century phenomenon that was the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand. It explores links between the rushes, particularly those in Victoria and Otago, to show that they were strongly intertwined affairs. The book brings together contributions from both experienced and newly emergent researchers, who together provide a close examination of miners' migration patterns, ethnicities and merchant networks. The contributors' insightful analyses and narrative accounts of the places, commerce and heritage of the rushes reveal a pantheon of characters, from merchants, hoteliers, financiers and policemen to vagrants, sly-groggers and entertainers, not to mention women, all of whom prompted and populate the mythology of the era, which this book does much to unravel and rewrite.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A former teacher, Lloyd Carpenter returned to the University of Canterbury in 2008 and emerged with a PhD on a subject he has loved since his youth: the Central Otago gold rush. Lyndon Fraser is an associate professor of history at the University of Canterbury and a research fellow at the Canterbury Museum. His Castles of Gold won the J.W. Sherrard Award for New Zealand Regional and Local History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Otago University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1877578541
• ISBN 13: 9781877578540
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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