- Hardcover: 358 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; illustrated edition edition (Jun 11 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521805953
- ISBN-13: 978-0521805957
- Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 1.8 x 0.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 880 g
- See Complete Table of Contents
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A team of prominent historians and curators have produced this innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society. 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. The population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting.
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The discovery of the Victorian Gold Fields has converted a remote dependency into a country of world-wide fame; it has attracted a population extraordinary in number, with unprecedented rapidity; it has enhanced the value of property to an enormous extent; it has made this the richest country in the world; and, in less than three years, it has done for this Colony the work of an age and made its impulses felt in the most distant regions of the earth. Read the first page
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The discovery of the Victorian Gold Fields has converted a remote dependency into a country of world-wide fame; it has attracted a population extraordinary in number, with unprecedented rapidity; it has enhanced the value of property to an enormous extent; it has made this the richest country in the world; and, in less than three years, it has done for this Colony the work of an age and made its impulses felt in the most distant regions of the earth. Read the first page
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