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Mining Towns : Making a Living, Making a Life.
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 n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of New South Wales Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.