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Lowe: ADB, 2.
Boyd: ADB, 1.
Moreton Bay separation: Evans, A History of Queensland.
Charles Harpur’s poetry: Molony, The Native-Born.
The toyshop mob
Parkes’s coterie: Cochrane, Colonial Ambition; Roe, Quest for Authority in Eastern Australia; John Hirst, The Strange Birth of Australian Democracy: New South Wales 1848-1888 (Sydney 1988); Paul A Pickering, ‘ “The oak of English liberty”: popular constitutionalism in New South Wales, 1848 to 1856’, JACH, 3 (1), 2001; Sir Henry Parkes, Letters, CY 2823 (A19), folios 114-243, ML.
General progressive and Chartist ideas at play: Clark, A History of Australia, 3; Andrew
Messner, ‘Contesting chartism from afar: Edward Hawksley and the people’s advocate, JACH, 1, (1999).
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East Indiamen
Alan Dwight, ‘The use of Indian labourers in New South Wales’, JRAHS, 62 (2), 1976; John Roe, Quest for Authority in Eastern Australia.
Robert Towns: ADB, 6; Robert Campbell, ADB, 3.
Trading in tea
Attempts at northern settlement: Alan Powell, Far Country: A short history of the Northern Territory (Melbourne 1982); Reynolds, North of Capricorn.
Tea trade: Marian Diamond, ‘Tea and sympathy: foundations of the Australia/China trading networks’, Queensland Review, 6 (2), 1999; James Broadbent, Suzanne Rickard &Margaret Steven, India, China, Australia: Trade and society, 1788-1850 (Sydney 2003); Alan Lester, ‘Imperial circuits and networks: geographies of the British Empire, History Compass, 4 (1), 2006.
Fort Dundas: HRA, Series III, V.
What about Chinese?
Recruitment, journey, and Australian existence: Maxine Darnell, ‘Master and servant, squatter and shepherd: the regulation of indentured Chinese labourers, New South Wales, 1847-1853’, in Henry Chan, Ann Curthays & Nora Ching (eds) The Overseas Chinese in Australia: Settlement and interactions—proceedings (Canberra 2001); Shirley Fitzgerald, Red Tape, Gold Scissors (Sydney 2008); Ian Jack, ‘Some less familiar aspects of the Chinese in nineteenth century Australia’ in Chan, Curthoys & Ching, The Overseas Chinese in Australia; Jan Ryan, Ancestors: Chinese in Colonial Australia (Fremantle 1995); Sing Wu Wang, The Organisation of Chinese Emigration 1848-1888 (San Francisco 1978); Maxine Darnell, ‘Life and labour for indentured Chinese shepherds in New South Wales, 1847-1855’, JACH, 6, 2004; C.Y. Choi, Chinese Migration and Settlement in Australia (Sydney 1975); Alan Dwight, ‘The Chinese in New South Wales law courts 1848-1854’, JRAHS, 73 (2), 1987; Indentured Chinese Labourers and Employers Identified, New South Wales, 1828-1856, developed by Maxine Darnell at
Women who married Chinese: Kate Bagnall, ‘Golden shadows on a white land: an Women who married Chinese: Kate Bagnall, ‘Golden shadows on a white land: an exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in Southern Australia, 1855-1915’, PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, 2008, and ‘ “I was nearly broken hearted about him”: stories of Australian mothers’ separation from their “Chinese” children’, History Australia, 1 (I), 2003.
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Golden Epiphany
Discovery of gold: Geoffrey Blainey, The Rush That Never Ended: A history of Australian mining (Melbourne 1969); David Goodman, Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s (Sydney 1994); Charles Barrett (ed), Gold: The romance of its discovery (Melbourne 1970); Clark, A History of Australia, 3.
Hargraves: ADB, 4.
Deas Thomson: ADB, 2.
Impact of gold on Australian politics: Cochrane, Colonial Ambition; Roe, Quest for Authority in Eastern Australia.
Other claims of discovery: Blainey, The Rush That Never Ended; HME Heney, In a Dark Glass: The story of Paul Edmund Strzelecki (Sydney 1961).
Golden Victoria
Diggings: Clark, A History of Australia, 3, and A History of Australia Volume 4: The earth abideth forever (Melbourne 1978); Blainey, The Rush That Never Ended; Goodman, Gold Seeking; Barrett, Gold; John Molony, Eureka (Melbourne 2001); Ian D Clark, ‘Another side of Eureka: the Aboriginal presence on the Ballarat goldfields in 1854’, Working Paper (University of Ballarat 2005/07).
Meagher: Keneally, The Great Shame.
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How gold makes all new
Further developments: Clark, A History of Australia, 3 and 4; Blainey, The Rush That Never Ended; Goodman, Gold Seeking; Molony, Eureka.
Wentworth, Parkes and others: Cochrane, Colonial Ambition.
Impact of gold on society: Therry, Reminiscences of Thirty Years’ Residence in New South Wales & Victoria.
a’Becketts and Redmond Barry: ADB, 3.
Goldfield arrivals
The Lalors and Humffray: Keneally, The Great Shame; Molony, Eureka.
Lalor: ADB, 5; Humffray, ADB, 4.
Carboni: ADB, 3; Molony, Eureka; Raffaello Carboni, The Eureka Stockade, intro.
T. Keneally (Melbourne 2004); Desmond O’Grady, Raffaello! Raffaello! A biography of Raffaello Carboni (Sydney 1985).
Lettered miners
Standard gold-rush works as for previous two sections; Keneally, The Great Shame; Carboni, The Eureka Stockade; O’Grady, Raffaello! Raffaello!
Rede: ADB, 6.
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Golden Celestials
Jean Gittins, The Diggers from China: The story of Chinese on the goldfields (Melbourne 1981); Jan Ryan, Ancestors: Chinese in colonial Australia (Fremantle 1995); Wang, Organisation of Chinese Emigration; Kathryn Cronin, Colonial Casualties: Chinese in early Victoria (Melbourne 1982); Henry Chan, The Overseas Chinese in Australasia (Taipei 2001); Barry McGowan, ‘Reconsidering race: the Chinese experience on the goldfields of southern New South Wales’, Australian Historical Studies, 124, 2004.
Objects in a landscape, or actors in a field
Keir Reeves, ‘A songster, a sketcher and the Chinese on central Victoria’s Mount Alexander diggings: case studies in cultural complexity during the second half of the nineteenth century’, JACH, 6, 2004; Barry McGowan, ‘The Chinese on the Braidwood goldfields:
historical and archaeological opportunities’, JACH, 6, 2004; Barry McGowan, ‘The economics and organisation of Chinese mining in colonial Australia’, Australian Economic History Review, 45 (2), 2004; Dinah Hales, ‘Lost histories: Chinese-European families of central western New South Wales, 1850-1880’, JACH, (6), 2004.
Protests and race riots: Andrew Messner, ‘Popular constitutionalism and Chinese protest on the Victorian goldfields’, JACH, 2, 2000.
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The republican push
Cochrane, Colonial Ambition; Roe, Quest for Authority in Eastern Australia; Pickering, ‘ “The oak of English liberty” ’.
Fitzroy: ADB, 4.
Lang’s judgments: Alan Martin, Henry Parkes: A biography (Melbourne 1980); JD Lang, Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia (London 1852).
Deniehy: Cyril Pearl, Brilliant Dan Deniehy (Brisbane 1972); EA Martin, The Life and Speeches of Daniel Henry Deniehy (Sydney 1884); Deniehy’s Letters, 869, ML. In MLMSS 868, Daniel Deniehy’s letters from 1833-1860, there is a prospectus of his newspaper, The Southern Cross.
Betsey Bandicoot Letter: Sydney Gazette, 30 October 1823.
Stenhouse and others: Cochrane, Colonial Ambition; Pearl, Brilliant Dan Deniehy.
Henry Kendall: ADB, 5; Henry Kendall, Poems and Songs (Sydney 1862).
House of Colonial Lords and The Roosians
James Macarthur: ADB, 5.
The constitutional debate: Cochrane, Colonial Ambition; Roe, Quest for Authority in Eastern Australia; Pearl, Brilliant Dan Deniehy.
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Police state?
Police oppression: Goodman, Gold Seeking; Molony, Eureka; Report of the Gold Fields’ Commission of Enquiry (Victorian Parliament 1855); Carboni, The Eureka Stockade; Blainey, The Rush That Never Ended; Clark, A History of Australia, 4.
Peter Lalor: ADB, 5.
Lalor family: Keneally, The Great Shame; Kiernan, The Irish Exiles in Australia.
Governor Hotham: ADB, 4; Molony, Eureka.
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The battle
Molony, Eureka; Carboni, The Eureka Stockade; Clark, A History of Australia, 4; Age, 6, 7 December; Argus, 6, 7, 8, 15 December 1854.
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The aftermath
Official reaction, escapes and trials: Raffaello Carboni, Memoirs; Molony, Eureka; Paul A Pickering, ‘Ripe for a republic: British radical responses to the Eureka Stockade’, Australian Historical Studies, 34 (121), April 2003.
Smith O’Brien: Keneally, The Great Shame.
Australian patriots and political developments: Kingston, A History of New South Wales; Anne Coote, ‘Imagining the colonial nation: the development of popular concepts of sovereignty and nation in New South Wales between 1856 and 1860’, JACH, 1 (1), 1999.
Wentworth: Cochrane, Colonial Ambition.
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