A Global History of Gold Rushes
A Global History of Gold Rushes

Author: Benjamin Mountford

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0520967585

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Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.

Roaring Camp
Roaring Camp

Author: Susan Lee Johnson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780393320992

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Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.

Spreading the Word
Spreading the Word

Author: Richard Thomas Stillson

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0803243251

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A study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.

Riches for All
Riches for All

Author: Kenneth N. Owens

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780803286177

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An event of international significance, the California gold rush created a more diverse, metropolitan society than the world had ever known. In Riches for All, leading scholars reexamine the gold rush, evaluating its trajectory and legacy within a global context of religion and race, economics, technology, law, and culture. The opportunity for instant wealth directly influenced a dynamic range of peoples, including Mormon military veterans, California Indian workers, both slave and free African Americans, Chinese village farmers, skilled Mexican miners, and Chilean merchants. Riches for All gives attention to the varying motivations and experiences of these groups and to their struggles with both racial and religious bigotry. Emphasizing gold rush social history, some contributors examine the roles and influence of women, workers, law-breakers, and law-enforcers. Others consider the long-term impact of this episode on California and the American West and on subsequent gold rushes in Pacific Rim countries and the Klondike. With lively and incisive strokes, these historians sketch the most broadly contextualized and nuanced portrait of the California gold rush to date.

Mining for Freedom
Mining for Freedom

Author: Sylvia Alden Roberts

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0595524923

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Did you know that an estimated 5,000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black history in California precedes Gold Rush history by some 300 years? Did you know that in California during the Gold Rush, blacks created one of the wealthiest, most culturally advanced, most politically active communities in the nation? Few people are aware of the intriguing, dynamic often wholly inspirational stories of African American argonauts, from backgrounds as diverse as those of their less sturdy- complexioned peers. Defying strict California fugitive slave laws and an unforgiving court testimony ban in a state that declared itself free, black men and women combined skill, ambition and courage and rose to meet that daunting challenge with dignity, determination and even a certain elan, leaving behind a legacy that has gone starkly under-reported. Mainstream history tends to contribute to the illusion that African Americans were all but absent from the California Gold Rush experience. This remarkable book, illustrated with dozens of photos, offers definitive contradiction to that illusion and opens a door that leads the reader into a forgotten world long shrouded behind the shadowy curtains of time."

The Gold Rush of 1849
The Gold Rush of 1849

Author: Arthur Blake

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781562944834

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The story of the California gold rush and its effect on the character of the United States.

Rush to Gold
Rush to Gold

Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 030018140X

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The California Gold Rush attracted 300,000 gold seekers in the mid-1800s, and it is the story of 30,000 Frenchman who came by sea that is told in The Rush to Gold. This is the first book to give an international focus to this pivotal time.

A World Transformed
A World Transformed

Author: Joshua Paddison

Publisher: Heyday

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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California changed dramatically in the years between the founding of the first mission in 1769 and the 1848 gold rush. These eleven eyewitness accounts vividly describe the first European land expedition into an unknown territory; the spread of the missions; the rule of Spain and then Mexico; the rise and fall of California's Russian colony; the emergence of rancho culture; the semi-feudal empires of Vallejo and Sutter; and the arrival of Anglo-Americans as ship-deserters, settlers, traders, and ultimately -- perhaps inevitably -- the masters of California.

What Was the Gold Rush?
What Was the Gold Rush?

Author: Joan Holub

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-02-07

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1101610298

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In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget from history is brought to life!

The Gold Rush
The Gold Rush

Author: David Hill

Publisher: Random House Australia

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1864711302

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David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to late-1800s, people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, including two future prime ministers of Great Britain and Australia, threw off their previous pursuits and made the often perilous journey to the goldfields, from where they would return either fabulously wealthy or demoralised and broken - if they returned at all.