The Resource Boom : the underground history of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC, Malcolm Knox
Boom : the underground history of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC, Malcolm Knox
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- Summary
- Mining divides the country ? development against conservation, north-and-west against south-and-east, pro-tax against anti-tax. It's an important industry, but why do passions run so high? What does mining really mean to us? And how much do we understand about our underground history? Although we favour the romantic vision of Australia riding to prosperity on the sheep's back, in reality we have always owed as much to the shovel. The gold rush kick-started the nation, populating our cities and building our regional centres, and our fortunes have both risen and fallen according to what we've been able to dig from the ground. To describe mining's place in the Australian story, Boom presents not a textbook history, but a narrative of the people behind the facts and figures, from the eccentric loners who staked the first claims to the emergence of the modern mega-magnates. It takes us deep underground with men working in extraordinary danger by candlelight, and on the extraordinary journey 25,000 tonnes of the raw Australian landscape makes from the Pilbara to Shanghai. Boom reveals the history of mining as the Australian story, for better or worse. Insightful, compellingly readable and full of extraordinary characters, it shows how mining and miners have shaped our history and gripped our imagination through boom and bust
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- "Viking an imprint of Penguin Books"
- Contents
-
- Finding
- Peopling
- Nation-building
- Buying and selling
- Surviving
- Working
- Trading off
- Booming
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780670076116
- Label
- Boom : the underground history of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC
- Title
- Boom
- Title remainder
- the underground history of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC
- Statement of responsibility
- Malcolm Knox
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Mining divides the country ? development against conservation, north-and-west against south-and-east, pro-tax against anti-tax. It's an important industry, but why do passions run so high? What does mining really mean to us? And how much do we understand about our underground history? Although we favour the romantic vision of Australia riding to prosperity on the sheep's back, in reality we have always owed as much to the shovel. The gold rush kick-started the nation, populating our cities and building our regional centres, and our fortunes have both risen and fallen according to what we've been able to dig from the ground. To describe mining's place in the Australian story, Boom presents not a textbook history, but a narrative of the people behind the facts and figures, from the eccentric loners who staked the first claims to the emergence of the modern mega-magnates. It takes us deep underground with men working in extraordinary danger by candlelight, and on the extraordinary journey 25,000 tonnes of the raw Australian landscape makes from the Pilbara to Shanghai. Boom reveals the history of mining as the Australian story, for better or worse. Insightful, compellingly readable and full of extraordinary characters, it shows how mining and miners have shaped our history and gripped our imagination through boom and bust
- Award
- Ashurst Business Literature Prize, 2013.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10319389
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1966-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Knox, Malcolm
- Dewey number
- 338.20994
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mines and Mineral Resources
- Mines and mineral resources
- Mineral industries
- Mineral industries
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the underground history of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC
- Label
- Boom : the underground history of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC, Malcolm Knox
- Note
- "Viking an imprint of Penguin Books"
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-368) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- still image
- Contents
- Finding -- Peopling -- Nation-building -- Buying and selling -- Surviving -- Working -- Trading off -- Booming -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 000051673713
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670076116
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Other physical details
- some colour illustrations, portraits
- Label
- Boom : the underground history of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC, Malcolm Knox
- Note
- "Viking an imprint of Penguin Books"
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-368) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- still image
- Contents
- Finding -- Peopling -- Nation-building -- Buying and selling -- Surviving -- Working -- Trading off -- Booming -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 000051673713
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670076116
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Other physical details
- some colour illustrations, portraits
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