Black Gold: Aboriginal People on the Goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870

by Fred Cahir

Fred Cahir tells the story about the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first history of Aboriginal-white interaction on the Victorian goldfields, Black Gold offers new insights on one of the great epochs in Australian and world history-the gold story. In vivid detail it describes how Aboriginal people often figured significantly in the search for gold and documents the devastating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1921862955
• ISBN13: 9781921862953
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.8"