Description:
This book creatively explores the gold rushes in the Tasman World through an examination of the Otago gold rushes, revealing how transnational connections and local social and natural environments shaped colonial identities. The first monograph-length study on the Otago gold rushes and their place in the histories of British and Irish migration, it increases our understanding of the British World by grounding transnational networks in the local ecologies, geologies and weather patterns which shaped local social structures and profoundly affected migrants' relationships to loved ones in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere.
Brief description: Daniel Davy is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of Faculty at Ave Maria University, Florida.
Review Quotes: Very well researched, and always alert both to the trends of current scholarship and to the nuances of the evidence. It is impressively but unobtrusively documented and written in a clear and engaging fashion.--Professor David Goodman, Professor of History, Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne