The Rise of Broken Hill

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Macmillan of Australia, 1968 - Technology & Engineering - 184 pages
The story of the men who made and spent their fortunes, and of the miners who won that fortune from the Hill.

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Contents

Illustrations
7
The Magnates
33
End of the Honeymoon
49
Copyright

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About the author (1968)

Geoffrey Blainey is an Australian historian, born 1930 in Melbourne, Victoria. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. He taught at the University of Melbourne and held chairs in economic history and history. He taught at Harvard University as a visiting professor of Australian Studies. He has written over 36 and is the author of The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia for which he was a joint winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian history.

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