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Black Gold : Aboriginal People on the Goldfields of Victoria 1850-1870.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Aboriginal History MonographsPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (160 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781921862960
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black GoldDDC classification:
  • 994.5
LOC classification:
  • DU220 -- .C35 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preliminary -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Aboriginal people and mining -- 2. Discoverers and fossickers -- 3. Guiding -- 4. Trackers and Native Police -- Illustrations -- 5. Trade, commerce and theservice sector -- 6. Co-habitation -- 7. Off the goldfields -- 8. Social and environmental change -- 9. Governments and missions -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography.
Summary: Fred Cahir tells the story about the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first history of Aboriginal-white interaction on the Victorian goldfields, 'Black Gold' offers new insights on one of the great epochs in Australian and world history--the gold story.
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Preliminary -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Aboriginal people and mining -- 2. Discoverers and fossickers -- 3. Guiding -- 4. Trackers and Native Police -- Illustrations -- 5. Trade, commerce and theservice sector -- 6. Co-habitation -- 7. Off the goldfields -- 8. Social and environmental change -- 9. Governments and missions -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography.

Fred Cahir tells the story about the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first history of Aboriginal-white interaction on the Victorian goldfields, 'Black Gold' offers new insights on one of the great epochs in Australian and world history--the gold story.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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