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Rushing for Gold : Life and Commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand and Australia
by Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser
Overview
Rushing for Gold 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. 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 reveal a pantheon of characters, from merchants, hoteliers, financiers and policemen to vagrants, sly-groggers and entertainers.
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- ISBN-13: 9781877578540
- ISBN-10: 1877578541
- Publisher: Otago University Press
- Publish Date: May 2016
- Dimensions: 9.54 x 6.47 x 1.03 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.89 pounds
- Page Count: 344
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