Red Dirt Dreaming: Re-Imagining the History of Mining in Australia

资源业的繁荣和衰退，再次将采矿业置于澳大利亚经济和意识的中心。矿业是一个充满深刻矛盾的环境，国家/国际环境不断变化，利益相互竞争。因此，矿产勘探和开采的故事需要对其在澳大利亚的社会、文化和政治影响进行新的评估。这本及时的澳大利亚采矿业历史考察了人、土地和政府之间复杂的相互作用，并探索了以前沉默的历史角色——土著人、妇女、少数民族和环保主义者——从而为澳大利亚强大的地质意外收获所创造的多种多样的历史主角和过程提供了一种创新的新叙述。

The resources boom, and slowdown, have once again placed mining at the centre of the Australian economy and consciousness. Mining is a milieu of profound paradox, with changing national/international contexts and competing interests. The story of mineral exploration and exploitation thus demands fresh assessments of its social, cultural and political impact in Australia. This timely history of Australian mining examines the complex interactions of people, land and governments and explores historical actors previously silenced—Aborigines, women, ethnic minorities and environmentalists—thereby providing an innovative new narrative of the multiple and diverse historical protagonists and processes created by Australia’s mighty geological windfall.