Charters Towers
Menghetti, Diane (1984) Charters Towers. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
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Abstract
The academic establishment has probably not been waiting anxiously for a Ph.D. thesis on Charters Towers. Nevertheless there are several good reasons why one should have been written. .Firstly, the town played an important part in attracting settlers to North Queensland and in determining what sort of people these settlers would be. Secondly, the field made useful contributions to the technology and capitalisation of Australian mining at a time when the industry was growing rapidly. Thirdly political developments on Charters Towers influenced the style of Colonial politics, particularly labour politics, in a formative period. Lastly, there is an intrinsic historical interest in charting the growth of a community founded in the wilderness at the peak of the industrial-capitalist era. While it would be excessive to suggest it as a microcosm of the growth of a capitalist society there are, I believe, insights to be gained from the rise and decline of this goldfield.
| ID Code: | 1571 |
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| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
| Keywords: | Charters Towers, gold mining, settlement, local government, Labour Party, mining companies, Lissner, Isidor, mining machinery |
| FoR Codes: | 21 HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 2103 Historical Studies @ 0% 21 HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY @ 0% |
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| Deposited On: | 02 Aug 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2011 22:13 |
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