Author: George M. HardessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Notes by the Wayside; or, silent thoughts for quiet hours
Author: George M. HardessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Gold Seeking
Author: David GoodmanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804724807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"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
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
The Supplemental Catalogue of the Melbourne Public Library for 1865
Author: Melbourne Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The catalogue of the Melbourne public library. Suppl. catalogue
Author: Melbourne state libr. of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: John Foster KirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Bibliography of Australia
Author: John Alexander FergusonPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642990495
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description