Integrating The Historiography Of The Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes

Australian Economic History Review

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-128

  Reeves, Keir ^a   Frost, Lionel ^a   Fahey, Charles ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Economic development; Environmental history; Gold rush; Gold standard; Migration; Mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954909053     PISSN: 00048992     EISSN: 14678446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8446.2010.00296.x     Document Type: Article

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