Gold rush societies and migrant networks in the Tasman World / Daniel Davy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davy, Daniel (Associate professor of history), author.

Series:

Studies in British and Irish migration.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Studies in British and Irish migration

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gold mines and mining--New Zealand--Otago--History--19th century.

Gold mines and mining.

New Zealand--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

New Zealand.

Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Ireland.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

China--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This text investigates the role of memory in forming ethnic and national identities in the early twentieth-century Tasman World.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Series Editors’ Introduction

List of Abbreviations

Glossary

Editorial Notes

Map 1: The Tasman World

Map 2: The Otago Goldfields

Introduction

1 ‘To Return Home with . . . Satisfaction and Pleasure’: Home and Family Networks

2 ‘A Great Many People I Know from Victoria’: The Victorian Dimension of the Otago Gold Rushes

3 Work and Environments

4 Leisure Sites and Cultures

5 ‘We Return Home in Glory’: Chinese Networks and Gold Seeking in Otago

6 ‘Monuments of Industry’? The Otago Gold Rushes in Public and Private Memory

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 6, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-7737-2

1-3995-0214-X

1-4744-7736-4

OCLC:

1252418857