Mining Towns: Making a Living, Making a Life

✍ Scribed by Erik Eklund

Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 313
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A history of iconic Australian towns that have emerged as a result of mining booms—including Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie, and Kambalda—this book is a unique attempt to introduce urban readers to those communities, past and present. Unlike many mining books, this is not limited to a single material such as coal or gold, but traces the fortunes of a range of towns. With explanations on how these towns were formed and how well they have fared, it will interest academics and history buffs alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
About the Author
Copyright
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

✦ Subjects

Architecture West US Bibliography

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