{"product_id":"an-oak-on-maiden-hill-ron-southern-9780992433260","title":"An Oak on Maiden Hill: an archaeology of the Victorian goldfields, 1850-1900.","description":"From the eve of the Eureka insurrection to the beginnings of depression, this work charts the creation of a civilization, but it is also as much about the symbolism of place, the politics of streetscapes, the social economy of house-plots, their gardens, the everyday artifacts that make a home, in a sense of duration - time - that gives an ephemeral existence a history. It is about the ideas that permeate a culture; thoughts half conceived, or formed but not acknowledged; it is about the history assumed and consumed, about avarice and endeavour, kindness and cruelty; about the claimed gods and those rejected, and is therefore about a spiritual domain and the nature of rationality: as much about the metaphysics, then, as of the non-too-solid earth under the feet and above the heads of those who lived on a 19th Century goldfield.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ron Southern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0992433266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780992433260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Messmate Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.46d","brand":"Ron Southern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241162060031,"sku":"9780992433260","price":14.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c359ddc0-f151-483a-bb19-53407f3efd97.jpg?v=1772653050","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-oak-on-maiden-hill-ron-southern-9780992433260","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}