Gold : forgotten histories and lost objects of Australia - McCalman, Iain., Ed.; McCalman, Iain.; Cook, Alexander; Reeves, Andrew (Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Machine generated contents note: Part I Gold and Modernity: The Impact of the Gold Rushes -- on the Development of the Australian Colonies -- 1 Making an Edgier History of Gold -- DAVID GOODMAN 23 -- 2 'The Finger of God': Gold's Impact on New South Wales -- PAUL A. PICKERING 37 -- 3 Gold-Rush Melbourne -- GRAEME DAVISON 52 -- 4 Labour and Trade Unionism in Victorian Goldmining: Bendigo, 1861-1915 -- CHARLES FAHEY 67 -- 5 Mullock Heaps and Tailing Mounds: Environmental Effects of Alluvial -- Goldmining -- BARRY MCGOWAN 85 -- Part II Immigrants and Ethnic Relations -- 6 'Men of All Nations, except Chinamen': Europeans and Chinese -- on the Goldfields of New South Wales -- ANN CURTHOYS 103 -- 7 Undesirable Persons: Race and West Australian Mining Legislation -- PATRICK BERTOLA 124 -- 8 Golden Opportunities?: Immigrant Workers on Western Australia's Eastern -- Goldfields, 1900-1965 -- BILL BUNBURY 141 -- Part III White Gold/Black Gold: Settler and Indigenous Histories of Goldmining -- 9 Eyewitness?: Drawings by Oscar of Cooktown -- KIM MCKENZIE AND CAROL COOPER 157 -- 10 Golden Reflections: Artists, Entrepreneurs and Aborigines on the North-West -- Australian Goldfields -- IAN COATES 164 -- 11 Lasseter's Stories: Tending the Ghosts of Desert Gold -- DAVID RAFTERY 179 -- 12 Isla del Oro: Seeking New Guinea Gold -- HANK NELSON 189 -- 13 Jukurrpa- Golden Dreams -- DEREK ELIAS 207 -- Part IV Daily Life and Domestic Culture -- 14 Mrs Charles Clacy, Lola Montez and Poll the Grogseller: Glimpses of Women -- on the Early Victorian Goldfields -- MARGARET ANDERSON 225 -- 15 After the Gold Rush: Material Culture and Settlement on Victoria's Central -- Goldfields -- SUSAN LAWRENCE 250 -- 16 Vegetable Plots and Pleasure Gardens of the Victorian Goldfields -- SUZANNE R. HUNT 267 -- Part V Art, Visuality and Material Culture -- 17 Edward Snell: Sketching a Fortune -- TOM GRIFFITHS AND ALAN PLATT 285 -- 18 Antoine Fauchery: A French Artist's View of the Goldfields -- DIANNE REILLY 299 -- 19 Cinderella's Jewellery: The Gold-Rush Brooches of Western Australia -- DOROTHY ERICKSON 316 -- 20 A Broad Brush Dipped in Gold: The Expansion of Australian Vision -- ANITA CALLAWAY 326 -- Index 339.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Gold mines and mining -- Australia