Reminiscences of Australia. The Diggings and the Bush
Author: Mrs. W. May Howell
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 342
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Author: Mrs. W. May Howell
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mrs. W. May Howell
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 846
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Goodman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780804724807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: John Alexander Ferguson
Publisher: National Library Australia
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 1204
ISBN-13: 9780642990495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine Bode
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0857284541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field' is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and modelling data from 'AustLit' - an online bibliography of Australian literature that leads the world in its comprehensiveness and scope - this study revises established conceptions of Australian literary history, presenting new ways of writing about literature and publishing and a new direction for digital humanities research. The case studies in this book offer insight into a wide range of features of the literary field, including trends and cycles in the gender of novelists, the formation of fictional genres and literary canons, and the relationship of Australian literature to other national literatures.
Author: Public Library of New South Wales
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 848
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edmund Morris Miller
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 602
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