Integrating the historiography of the nineteenth-century gold rushes

Title: Integrating the historiography of the nineteenth-century gold rushes
Creator: Reeves, Keir; Frost, Lionel; Fahey, Charles
Date: 2010
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/70517
Identifier: vital:6642
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8446.2010.00296.x
Identifier: ISSN:0004-8992
Abstract: In the century preceding World War I, the world experienced a series of gold rushes. The wealth derived from these was distributed widely because of reduced migration costs and low barriers to entry. While gold mining itself was generally unprofitable for diggers and mine owners, the increase in the world's gold supply stimulated global trade and investment. In this introductory article we integrate the histories of migration, trade, colonisation, and environmental history to identify endogenous factors that increased the world's gold supply and generated sustained economic growth in the regions that were affected by gold rushes.
Relation: Australian Economic History Review Vol. 50, no. 2 (2010), p. 111-128
Rights: Copyright Wiley-Blackwell
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: 1402 Applied Economics; 1503 Business and Management; 2202 History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields; Economic development; Environmental history; Gold rush; Gold standard; Migration; Mining
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