Hill End. An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape.

Mayne, Alan.

ISBN 10: 0522850766 / ISBN 13: 9780522850765

Published by Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2003

About this Item

xvii, 172pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills, map. Pictorial card. Extremely light foxing to top edge. Unravels the myths surrounding the gold rushes to reveal the hidden histories of the Wiradjuri people, the graziers and convicts who occupied their lands, of the multi-cultural gold-boom community and of the subsistence community that endured for generations after the boom had passed. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 051787

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hill End. An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape.
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0522850766
• ISBN 13: 9780522850765
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Paperback.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gems, Minerals and Mining
  • Australian Local History
  • Australian Aborigines

About this title

Synopsis

The history of the Australian gold rushes is full of exaggeration: the First This, the Richest That, the Largest Something Else.
Hill End unravels the myths surrounding the gold rushes in order to reveal the hidden histories of the Wiradjuri people, of the graziers and convicts who occupied the Wiradjuri lands, of the multicultural gold-boom community and of the subsistence community that endured for generations after the boom had passed.
Hill End is perched high on the New South Wales Central Tablelands, some 300 kilometres north-west of Sydney. The Hill End Historic Site, which was proclaimed in 1967, is one of first cultural heritage sites to be reserved in Australia. This is a book that digs past Hill End's gold rush façade into the lives of the people who lived through its history.

About the Author

Alan Mayne is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne. He is a specialist in urban and regional history.