Author: Robert CaldwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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The Gold Era of Victoria
Author: Robert CaldwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Lady Helena Investigates
Author: Jane SteenPublisher: Aspidistra Press
ISBN: 0995748438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family. 1881, Sussex. With a drowned husband—the second love lost—an overbearing family, no longed-for child, and the responsibility of a huge baroque mansion, it's not surprising Lady Helena Whitcombe is overwhelmed. When attractive, mysterious, French physician Armand Fortier disturbs her first weeks of mourning with his theory of murder, Helena's reluctant and ineffective attempts at investigation are hardly life-changing—until the resulting revival in her long-abandoned herbalist studies bring her into confrontation with her past and her family's. Can Lady Helena survive bereavement the second time around? Can she stand up to her six siblings' assumption of the right to control her new life as a widow? And what role will Fortier—who, as a physician, is a most unsuitable companion for an earl's daughter—play in her investigations? Every family has its secrets. The Scott-De Quincy family has more than most.
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
Gold
Author: Iain McCalmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521805957
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia150 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. In this book, a team of prominent historians and curators have collaborated to produce an innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society.
The Golden Colony; Or Victoria in 1854. With Remarks on the Geology of the Australian Gold Fields. ... Illustrated from Original Sketches by the Author, with Map, Etc
Author: George Henry WathenThe Golden Colony, Or, Victoria in 1854
Author: George Henry WathenPublisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author: Royal Commonwealth Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Australia
Author: Sir Ernest ScottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521356210
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Handbook to Australasia
Author: William FairfaxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Catalogue of the Public Lending Library
Author: Victoria. Public library, MelbournePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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