David Nicholls

Keir Reeves

Dorothy Wickham

Fred Cahir

Benjamin Mountford

Ian D. Clark

Terence Fitzsimons

Tim Harrison

David Waldron

Mark Pennings

Clare Gervasoni

Leigh Edmonds

Victoria Kolankiewicz

Janice Newton

Val Noone

Robert Pascoe

Michael Taffe

Stephen Tufnell

Four exciting themes: Faces, Places, Spaces and Traces, provide widened scope for enquiry into goldfields history. These new ways of historical research delve into the depths of deeper leads and find hidden gold, reminiscent of the cris of the gold diggers of old 'Pay Dirt! Eureka! I have found it!'

Ballarat and Other Gold Towns

Pay Dirt

Stephen Tuffnell

Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.

A Global History of Gold Rushes

Dominic Davies

Erica Lombard

Can a book change the world? Fighting Words looks at how the book has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.

Fourteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World

Fighting Words

Benjamin Mountford

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