Gold and Agriculture from the Province of Nelson to Murchison County

Description:

With references to over a thousand newspaper articles, adverts, letters and public notices, besides books, journals and memoirs, Gold and Agriculture explores how working class colonists extracted wealth from the ground and elevated themselves to an independent life. Hear their arguments, share their concerns, and learn how they overcame great difficulties to establish communities in the wilderness of New Zealand. The e-book version features a navigable table of contents and hyperlinks to all source material including individual newspaper articles. The paperback version features a comprehensive index and a list of all newspaper references. Both versions feature maps, a timeline and a bibliography.

subjects: New Zealand History,  Colonisation,  Gold Mining History,  Farming History,  Class Struggle,  Exploration,  Settlement

People: John Perry Robinson,  David Monro,  William Thomas Locke Travers,  Alfred Saunders,  Oswald Curtis,  William Hough,  James Poppleton Horn,  James Mackay,  John Rochfortoom,  Julius Haast,  William Hunter,  Magdalen Hunter,  George Fairweather Moonlight,  Donald McGregor,  William Gr

Places: Nelson,  Marlborough,  Murchison,  the West Coast,  New Zealand

Times: 1842-1909