One Immense Gold Field!' British imaginings of the Australian gold rushes, 1851-59

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ID11167883
AutoresKeith D Lilley, Keith Lilley (0000-0002-9513-6423, autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen27
Número1
Páginas67-80
Fecha de publicación2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLandscape Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0142-6397 • E-ISSN: 1469-9710
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01426390220110775
OpenAlexW2060422483
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas10

The gold rushes of the 19th century opened up a range of new vistas and landscapes to the British public, widening popular awareness and knowledge of distant places. Between 1851 and 1859, the gold rushes in south-eastern Australia, in New South Wales and Victoria, stimulated the publication, in Britain, of written accounts of life on the gold fields. Here it is argued that these accounts were important in shaping popular perceptions of colonial Australia in imperial Britain, and creating an image of the 'ideal' emigrant. The literature stimulated by gold discoveries in Australia thus prompted yet further imperial exploitation and emigration, and was a form of popular geographical knowledge which today reveals much about colonial and metropolitan imaginings of Australia in the mid 19th century

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Economic history · Emigration · Ethnology · Geography · Gold coast · Gold rush · Late 19th century · Metropolitan area · Period (music) · Australian History and Society · History

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