Melbourne After the Gold Rush
Title | Melbourne After the Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cannon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 490 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Sequel to the author's 'Old Melbourne Town Before the Gold Rush', this history describes the dynamic effects of the gold discoveries of the 1850s on the development of Melbourne. Discusses a range of aspects associated with the sudden influx of wealth and dramatic increase in population. Includes 110 colour plates taken mainly from contemporary paintings. Includes a bibliography and an index. The author's other publications include the bestselling 'The Land Boomers'.
The Gold Rush
Title | The Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | David Hill |
Publisher | Random House Australia |
Total Pages | 514 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1864711302 |
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.
Old Melbourne Town Before the Gold Rush
Title | Old Melbourne Town Before the Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cannon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 490 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Melbourne (Vic.) |
ISBN | 9781875308101 |
Interpretation of Melbourne's history from settlement until the gold rush by one of Australia's more prolific popular historians. This extensively illustrated volume describes the economic and social effects of Port Phillip's growth, and the beginnings of permanent government. Includes a detailed bibliography. The author has written a number of major volumes of Australian and Victorian history and is editor of the seven-volume THistorical Records of Victoria'.
Gold! Off to the Diggings
Title | Gold! Off to the Diggings PDF eBook |
Author | Geoff Hocking |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN | 9780957897236 |
Gold Rush
Title | Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Cox |
Publisher | Young Reed |
Total Pages | 47 |
Release | 2018-01-08 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN | 9781921580383 |
Publishers by New Holland Publishers
The Eureka Stockade
Title | The Eureka Stockade PDF eBook |
Author | Raffaello Carboni |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2023-09-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3387028717 |
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
A Global History of Gold Rushes
Title | A Global History of Gold Rushes PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Mountford |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2018-10-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520967585 |
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.