Gold And Civilisation
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Author | : Tom Stannage |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art, Australian |
ISBN | : |
The exhibition explores how the discovery of gold in Australia from 1851 had a profound impact on Australias̉ social and political development by creating enormous wealth and triggering an unprecedented wave of immigration and social change. Personal narratives, photographs and memorabilia will present the stories of those who came to live and work in the goldfields, including artists, goldsmiths, prospectors, ex-convict diggers, entertainers, participants in the Eureka Stockade uprising, Chinese miners, bankers, Aboriginal people, women, children and explorers. Revealing the powerful place of gold in the human imagination, Gold and Civilisation draws on gold artefacts from 35 countries including Austria, China, Denmark, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and The Vatican which represent the highest artistic standards of their culture.
Author | : Iain McCalman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2001-03-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521805957 |
Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. The population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting. In this book, a team of prominent historians and curators have collaborated to produce an innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society.
Author | : H. W. Brands |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2008-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307481220 |
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history" (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams). The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America’s imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. H.W. Brands tells his epic story from multiple perspectives: of adventurers John and Jessie Fremont, entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the wry observer Samuel Clemens—side by side with prospectors, soldiers, and scoundrels. He imparts a visceral sense of the distances they traveled, the suffering they endured, and the fortunes they made and lost. Impressive in its scholarship and overflowing with life, The Age of Gold is history in the grand traditions of Stephen Ambrose and David McCullough.
Author | : Musée de la civilisation (Québec) |
Publisher | : Les Editions Du Septentrion |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : America |
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Step into the passionate world of gold in the Americas, from the moment Christopher Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors fell under its spell and ventured forth to discover, colonize, and exploit the New World and its resources, right up to the present day and recent explorations for gold deposits in northern Quebec. Gold's natural properties are every bit as surprising as the powers attributed to the mineral, which is why gold could engender the brutal but extraordinarily productive encounter of the peoples who built the Americas of today. The Indians, Africans, Europeans, and MÉtis all contributed - through the alchemy of time and passion - to forging the face of the nations and the landscapes of the vast territory of the Americas. From pre-Hispanic treasures to technological marvels of the twenty-first century, the ways in which gold has been used are as limitless as the human imagination. Let yourself succumb to gold fever and discover the Americas as you have never before seen them.
Author | : John G. Jackson |
Publisher | : Austin, Tex. : American Atheist Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : National Museum of Australia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 200? |
Genre | : Gold |
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Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1390 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Alchemy |
ISBN | : 9780521085717 |
Author | : Jenifer Marx |
Publisher | : RAM U.S.A., Publications and Distribution |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Civilization, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9780981899145 |
Author | : Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech |
Publisher | : Marsilio |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788831705899 |
A trip across time along a golden labyrinth leading to the birth of pre-Columbian civilizations. More than 250 masterpieces from the most important museums of Peru reveal the mastery and the skill of the pre-Columbian goldsmiths of the Central Andes, as well as how gold forged the belief, the rituals, the earthly and heavenly spheres, and the way of representing the political and the religious. The force of unknown symbols, represented by the finds pictured in this book, leads to the understanding of the spirituality of these ancient peoples. The mystic dimension of life and death lived through a deep relation with the gods is evoked by the outstanding images which picture their connection with the afterlife. Inca: Origin and Mysteries of the Civilisation of Gold highlights the tie with nature, focusing on the contrast between power and submission, sea and mountains, and earth and sky, without forgetting the importance of the Sun and the Moon in the idea and perception of the universe.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781448733361 |