Mount Alexander mountain of gold 1851-1861 : the gold rush generation and the new society / Marjorie Theobald
- Bib ID:
- 8626382
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Theobald, Marjorie R, author
- Description:
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- Chewton, Victoria : Chewton Domain Society Inc., 2021
- ©2021
- 348 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780646842035
- Summary:
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Marjorie Theobald challenges the accepted view of the Ballarat Eureka Rebellion as the wellspring of democracy in Australia. She reinstates the men and women of the Monster Meeting at Chewton and the Red Ribbon movement in Bendigo as seminal in forcing Governor La Trobe to draw up the new democratic constitution well before Eureka. The book also challenges the view that the early alluvial miners at Mount Alexander were transient and wasteful in their search for gold. There are also chapters on the social history of the diggings which reinstate women as central to life on the goldfields. She acknowledges the environmental devastation caused by the alluvial mining and the further destruction of Dja Dja Wurrung society. But she suggests that the young and fiercely independent gold rush generation and their children helped to transform nineteenth-century society from a squattocracy into a modern nation (back cover)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-341) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Chewton Domain Society, issuing body
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2021
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