Rushing for gold : life and commerce on the goldfields of New Zealand and Australia /
Life and commerce on the goldfields of New Zealand and Australia.
edited by Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser.
- 396 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits, facsimilies ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is the first book to take a trans-Tasman look at the nineteenth-century phenomenon that was the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand. It explores links between the rushes, particularly those in Victoria and Otago, to show that they were strongly intertwined affairs. The book brings together contributions from both experienced and newly emergent researchers, who together provide a close examination of miners migration patterns, ethnicities and merchant networks. The contributors insightful analyses and narrative accounts of the places, commerce and heritage of the rushes reveal a pantheon of characters, from merchants, hoteliers, financiers and policemen to vagrants, sly-groggers and entertainers, not to mention women, all of whom prompted and populate the mythology of the era, which this book does much to unravel and rewrite.
9781877578540 (paperback)
Gold mines and mining--History--Social aspects.--New Zealand--19th century Gold mines and mining--History--Economic aspects.--New Zealand--19th century Gold miners--Social life and customs.--New Zealand Gold mines and mining--History--Economic aspects.--Australia--19th century Gold mines and mining--History--Social aspects.--Australia--19th century Gold miners--Social life and customs.--Australia
New Zealand--History--19th century. Australia--History--19th century. New Zealand--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century. Australia--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.