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Autore: | Eklund Erik Carl |
Titolo: | Mining towns : making a living, making a life / / Erik Eklund |
Pubblicazione: | Sydney, New South Wales : , : UNSW Press, , 2012 |
©2012 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina: | 338.20994 |
Soggetto topico: | Mineral industries - Australia |
Miners - Dwellings - Australia | |
Cities and towns - Australia | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. The global and national context; 2. Broken Hill: Icon of working-class culture; 3. Mount Morgan: In the thrall of modernity; 4.Queenstown: 'They've got to come here and they've got to learn about it'; 5. Port Pirie: Essentially hard and practical; 6. Mount Isa: Normalising outback suburbia; 7. Kambalda: Modernity, environment and experience; POSTSCRIPT; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX |
Sommario/riassunto: | At any given moment in our history Australia has been in the middle of a mining boom. This timely book is a history of the iconic Australian towns that arose with these booms over a century: Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie and Kambalda. Mining Towns shows the rich cultural and historical legacy these towns helped create as townspeople - those working below the ground and those above - sought to make their lives in them. The current 'fly-in-fly-out' mining culture means we may not see the likes of them again, which, as this book shows, will be a great loss. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Mining towns |
ISBN: | 1-74224-111-5 |
1-74224-598-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910480460903321 |
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