Rushing for Gold is the first book to take a trans-Tasman look at the nineteenth-century phenomenon that was the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand. The book brings together contributions from both experienced and newly emergent researchers, who together provide a close examination of miners' migration patterns, ethnicities and merchant networks. The contributors' insightful analyses and narrative accounts reveal a pantheon of characters, from merchants, hoteliers, financiers and policemen to vagrants, sly-groggers and entertainers.
Author Biography
A former teacher, Lloyd Carpenter returned to the University of Canterbury in 2008 and emerged with a PhD on a subject he has loved since his youth: the Central Otago gold rush. Lyndon Fraser is an associate professor of history at the University of Canterbury and a research fellow at the Canterbury Museum. His Castles of Gold won the J.W. Sherrard Award for New Zealand Regional and Local History.
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