The Other Rebellion: Attacking Ignorance and Vice on the Ballarat Goldfield

ISBN-13: 9783631529546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 172 str.

Moore, Keith

Opis

The discovery of gold and the prospect of easily acquired riches destabilized society in the Australian colony of Victoria. At Ballarat, one of the colony s principal goldfields, the collapse of previously adhered-to moral restraints and the presence of lawless behaviour was commonplace. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, a small but zealous body of clerics and schoolteachers endeavoured to counter the influence of immorality and crime by promoting virtue and honesty in children. As a social history, the book especially examines to use the words of Reverend Thomas Hastie, an 1850s Buninyong preacher the humbler classes . The Other Rebellion is different to other history books, and uniquely appealing."

Spis treści

Contents : Ballarat - Buninyong - Schoolteachers - Goldfields Society - Religion - Eureka Stockade.

O autorze

The Author: Keith Moore has a Ph.D. in History and lives in Brisbane where he lectures in History at Queensland University of Technology. Before embarking on a lecturing career, he was a schoolteacher and his understanding of the profession is evident in his examination of his schoolteacher subjects in The Other Rebellion. More recently, the author has written a number of articles and papers on Australian Society in the 1960s, and is currently writing a book on the institution of responsible government in New South Wales and Queensland in the 1850s.