Diggers hatters & whores : the story of the New Zealand gold rushes / Stevan Eldred-Grigg.
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TextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Random House, 2008.Description: 543 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781869419257 (pbk.) :
- Diggers hatters and whores : the story of the New Zealand gold rushes
- New Zealand gold rushes
- Gold mines and mining -- New Zealand -- History -- 19th century
- Gold miners -- New Zealand -- History -- 19th century
- Gold mines and mining -- New Zealand -- History
- Gold mines and mining New Zealand History 19th century
- Gold miners New Zealand History 19th century
- Gold mines and mining -- New Zealand -- West Coast -- History
- New Zealand -- History -- 19th century
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 622.3422 ELD | 1 | Available | T00483435 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This is a first - a thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand - and it establishes a benchmark for future work on the history of the gold rushes. It's based on sound scholarship and aimed at the wide and growing general readership of those keen to know more about, and to weigh up, the history of New Zealand. The style is clear, clean and lively. The scope is the social history of the goldfields of colonial New Zealand, from the 1850s to the 1870s. The book opens with a survey of worldwide rushes in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, when for the first time in history a great wheeling movement of gold diggers began to revolve from continent to continent. The main body of the book looks at all the rushes, large and small, that took place in the colony: Coromandel, Golden Bay, Otago, Marlborough, the West Coast and Thames. The early chapters of the main body survey rushes chronologically; the later chapters look at rushes thematically. Beautifully illustrated with sketches and watercolours of the times, this is both a wonderful read and a beautiful gift book.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gold fever -- Golden hems -- The stars of Orion -- Hurrah for gold digging! -- Wild West Coast -- Nigger and digger -- The digger's farewell -- Who were the diggers? -- Life and death on the diggings -- The yells and shrieks of the mob -- Women -- Chinese -- Yarns.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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