This work provides a reassessment of gold rushes in California, USA and Victoria, Australia in the middle of the 19th century. Goodman sets out to look beyond the mechanics of digging for gold, beyond the fortunes and failures that are the stuff of most histories of this time, to the meanings which these tumultuous social events had for the societies which experienced them. These were times which threatened established values of home and society, of family life, religion and the Protestant work ethic.
- ISBN13 9781863734523
- Publish Date 1 October 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 October 1996
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Allen & Unwin
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English