Tämä sivusto käyttää evästeitä palvelujen toimittamiseen, toiminnan parantamiseen, analytiikkaan ja (jos et ole kirjautunut sisään) mainostamiseen. Käyttämällä LibraryThingiä ilmaiset, että olet lukenut ja ymmärtänyt käyttöehdot ja yksityisyydensuojakäytännöt. Sivujen ja palveluiden käytön tulee olla näiden ehtojen ja käytäntöjen mukaista.
Eureka- The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. Eureka- The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic flag is still raised, and even the nineteenth-century visitor Mark Twain called it- " a strike for liberty". Was this rebellion a fledgling nation's first attempt to assert its independence under colonial rule? Or was it merely rabble-rousing by unruly miners determined not to pay their taxes. In his inimitable style, Peter FitzSimons gets into the hearts and minds of those on the battlefield, and those behind the scenes, bringing to life Australian legends on both sides of the rebellion.… (lisätietoja)
Another great history from Peter Fitzsimons. I have been to Ballarat and Bendigo a few times over the years when travelling in Victoria, and last year spent two days visiting Coronation Hill, so knew a fair bit about the Eureka Stockade and gold mining in Victoria in general, but this book brought it all together and fleshed it all out with riveting descriptions of the lives and struggles of the miners.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in Australian history. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
To Rafaello Carboni, Mrs Ellen Clacy, William Craig, Samuel Huyghue, Samuel Lazarus and William Bramwell Withers, whose contemporary - and, in the case of Withers, near-contemporary - accounts I have most enjoyed and relied upon in the formation of this book. And to all those diggers who fought so valiantly ...
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Background and acknowledgements: Like most Australians, the saga of the Eureka Stockade is in the very marrow of my bones.
Eureka- The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. Eureka- The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic flag is still raised, and even the nineteenth-century visitor Mark Twain called it- " a strike for liberty". Was this rebellion a fledgling nation's first attempt to assert its independence under colonial rule? Or was it merely rabble-rousing by unruly miners determined not to pay their taxes. In his inimitable style, Peter FitzSimons gets into the hearts and minds of those on the battlefield, and those behind the scenes, bringing to life Australian legends on both sides of the rebellion.
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Highly recommended for anyone interested in Australian history. (