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Eureka: Australia’s Greatest Story

Eureka: Australia’s Greatest Story

Author: David Headon; John Uhr
Publisher: The Federation Press
ISBN: 9781760020453
Published In: January 2016
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Australia ? Disclaimer:
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The editors of this book boldly proclaim that Eureka is Australia’s ‘greatest story’, and they have gathered together some of our country’s finest historians to prosecute the case. Collectively, they compile a strong argument.

In the late 19th century that acute American observer, Mark Twain, called the Ballarat rebellion ‘the finest thing in Australasian history’ and, like all such milestone moments in any country’s expanding tale, Eureka challenges because of the sheer number of interpretations that have been imposed upon it, both before Twain and after.

During the sesquicentenary year of Eureka, 2004, one journalist rightly observed that Eureka ‘is not so much history as many versions of history’. The question of who ‘owns’ the Eureka story is destined never to be answered, but one thing is certain: the superb Charter of Bakery Hill, an irresistible sequence of goldfield events leading to tragedy, a cast of characters drawn straight from a classic novel, violence and murder on an early Sabbath morning in December 1854, and a never-ending aftermath that arguably has had more energy within it in the 20th and 21st centuries than it had in the 19th – these extraordinary elements of a grand narrative will forever stimulate the Australian imagination.

Eureka: Australia’s Greatest Story is certain to stoke the fires.

Introduction

David Headon and John Uhr

1. Remembering the Eureka Stockade

John Molony

2. ‘A Victory Won by a Lost Battle’: What Eureka Means to Australians Today

Andrew Leigh and TW Gibbings

3. The Eureka Legacy: Conserving Core Principles

John Uhr

4. ‘The Next Throb of Outraged Humanity’: Australia in a Revolutionary Age

Clare Wright

5. America, Young America and Eureka

David Headon