Eureka : the unfinished revolution / Peter FitzSimons.
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TextPublisher: North Sydney, NSW : William Heinemann, 2012Description: xxvii, 696 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: still image | cartographic image | text Media type: unspecified Carrier type: volume | unspecifiedISBN: 9781742755250 (hbk.) :; 1742755259Subject(s): Eureka Stockade, 1854 | Gold mining -- Victoria -- History | Eureka Stockade, 1854 | Gold miners -- Australia -- Victoria -- Ballarat -- History | Riots -- Australia -- Victoria -- Ballarat -- History | Gold miners -- History | Riots -- History | Riots - History | Ballarat (Vic.) - History | Eureka Stockade, 1854 | Riots -- Australia -- Ballarat (Vic.) -- History | Gold miners -- Australia -- Ballarat (Vic.) -- History | Riots | Gold miners | Eureka Stockade | Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Vic.) | Gold miners -- Victoria -- Ballarat -- History | Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Vic., 1854 | Gold miners -- Victoria -- Ballarat -- History | Riots -- Victoria -- Ballarat -- History | Victoria -- History -- 1834-1900 | Victoria -- Ballarat | Victoria -- Ballarat -- Eureka Stockade | Ballarat (Vic.) -- History -- 1851-1901 | Ballarat (Vic.) -- History | Ballarat (Vic.) -- History -- 1851-1901 | Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Vic.) | Ballarat (Vic.) -- History | Eureka Stockade | Gold | Ballarat | Mining | Riots | History | Australian | Military history (Australia) | Modern history (c 1788-1914) (Australia) | Social history (Australia)Genre/Form: History. DDC classification: 994.57031 LOC classification: DU230 .B34 | F59 2012Also available online.Summary: The Eureka Stockade... In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. In his inimitable style, Peter FitzSimons brings to life Australian legends on both sides of the rebellion.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | 994 .57031 FIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | AL42000233315B |
Ill. on lining papers ('Eureka Slaugher' by Charles Doudiet)
Includes bibliographical references (p.667-679) and index.
The Eureka Stockade... In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. In his inimitable style, Peter FitzSimons brings to life Australian legends on both sides of the rebellion.
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.
Also available online.
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