• Part I:
• 1. Making an edgier history of gold David Goodman--
• 2. 'The finger of God': gold's impact on New South Wales Paul Pickering--
• 3. Gold-rush Melbourne Graeme Davison--
• 4. Labour and trade unionism in Victorian goldmining: Bendigo, 1861-1915 Charles Fahey--
• 5. Mullock heaps and tailing mounds: the environmental effects of alluvial goldmining Barry McGowan-- Part II:
• 6. 'Men of all nations, except Chinamen': Europeans and Chinese on the goldfields of New South Wales Ann Curthoys--
• 7. Undesirable persons: race and West Australian mining legislation Patrick Bertola--
• 8. Golden opportunities? Immigrant workers in Western Australia's eastern goldfields, 1900-1965 Bill Bunbury-- Part III:
• 9. Eyewitness? Drawings by Oscar of Cooktown Kim McKenzie and Carol Cooper--
• 10. Golden reflections: depictions of Aborigines on the North-West Australian goldfields Ian Coates--
• 11. Lasseter's stories: tending the ghosts of desert gold David Raftery--
• 12. Isla del Oro: seeking New Guinea gold Hank Nelson--
• 13. Jukurrpa - golden dreams Derek Elias-- Part IV:
• 14. Mrs Charles Clancy, Lola Montez and Poll the grogseller: glimpses of women on the early Victorian goldfields Margaret Anderson--
• 15. After the gold rush: material culture and settlement on Victoria's central goldfields Susan Lawrence--
• 16. Vegetable plots and pleasure gardens of the Victorian goldfields Suzanne Hunt-- Part V:
• 17. Edward Snell: sketching a fortune Tom Griffiths and Alan Platt--
• 18. Antoine Fauchery: a French artist's view of the goldfields Dianne Reilly--
• 19. Cinderella's jewellery: the gold-rush brooches of Western Australia Dorothy Erickson--
• 20. A broad brush dipped in gold: the expansion of Australian vision Anita Callaway.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. Immigrants flooded in from Asia and Europe, and the population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting. In this book, a team of prominent historians and curators have collaborated to produce a cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society. This fascinating book will add a new dimension to previously recorded Australian history, and provide a richer understanding of the foundations of Australian culture. Like a handful of tailings, Gold brings together a collection of stories that have been left out of standard Australian histories. It is an essential history.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)