Winner of the 2014 Stella Prize. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends--yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? What if there were women and children right there beside them, inside the Stockade, when the bullets started to fly? And how do the answers to these questions change what we thought we knew about the so-called ...
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Winner of the 2014 Stella Prize. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends--yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? What if there were women and children right there beside them, inside the Stockade, when the bullets started to fly? And how do the answers to these questions change what we thought we knew about the so-called "birth of Australian democracy?" Who, in fact, were the midwives to that precious delivery? Ten years in the research and writing, irrepressibly bold, entertaining and often irreverent in style, Clare Wright's The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of Ballarat--women who made Eureka a story for us all.
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F- in F jacket. F-/F. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper; pp. xx (last blank), 540 (last blank), with illustrations + endpaper map. A near fine copy.
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F in F- jacket. Signed by Author. F/F-. 8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper ('Signed' label to front cover, a trifle rubbed, tiny fray at upper fore-corner); pp. xx (last blank), 540 (last blank), with illustrations + endpaper map. A near fine copy. Signed and dated by the author, 'Clare Wright 10/13', to title page.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. xvii, 539pp, index, bibliography, notes, col plates. Blue cloth in jacket. Near new. Review copy with publisher's info sheet loosely inserted. The women who were active in pivitol roles in the Eureka Stockade miner's rebellion.
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Very Good. 9781922182548. Australian History. Size: 9"-10" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Australian History; ISBN: 1922182540. ISBN/EAN: 9781922182548. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 46651.
