Not a poor man's field : the New Guinea goldfields to 1942 - an Australian colonial history

Resource Information

The work Not a poor man's field : the New Guinea goldfields to 1942 - an Australian colonial history represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Not a poor man's field : the New Guinea goldfields to 1942 - an Australian colonial history

Title remainder

the New Guinea goldfields to 1942 - an Australian colonial history

Statement of responsibility

Michael Waterhouse

Creator

• Waterhouse, Michael, 1943-

Subject

• Gold miners -- Papua New Guinea -- History -- 20th century
• Gold mines and mining -- Papua New Guinea -- History -- 20th century
• Nonfiction
• Australia -- Colonies -- Papua New Guinea -- History -- 20th century
• truePapua New Guinea -- History -- 20th century
• truePapua New Guinea -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• Papua New Guinea -- Colonial influence

Language

eng

Summary

Between the wars, New Guinea goldfields attracted colourful characters, and yieled great riches to those who could afford to exploit them. The book also discusses Australia's colonial experience under the League of Nations

Additional physical form

Additional information and photographs may be seen at :www.notapoormansfield.com.

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

995.302

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• facsimiles

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography