Peopling the Victorian Goldfields
From Boom to Bust, 1851–1901
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20437456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Fahey (0000-0001-5858-5038, Australian Council for Educational Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 148-161 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8992 • E-ISSN: 1467-8446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8446.2010.00298.x |
| OpenAlex | W1541825640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 3 |
Victoria experienced a surge of migration after the discovery of gold in 1851. I explore the social and geographic background of migrants lured to the colony by opportunities opened up by gold mining. When alluvial gold was exhausted, the skills of migrants enabled them to exploit the more difficult deep lead and quartz reef gold deposits and to establish cities and towns. Urban growth was encouraged by high marriage and birth rates in the 1860s. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century goldfields communities generally suffered economic and demographic declines
Archaeology · Boom · Bust · Geography · Gold rush · Australian History and Society · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Geology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Oceanography
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |