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Title A global history of gold rushes / edited by Benjamin Mountford and Stephen Tuffnell.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 323 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The California world history library ; 25
California world history library ; 25.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Global transformations in the age of gold -- Settler societies and gold rush democracy -- Finance, speculation, and the economics of gold rushes -- Expertise, the environment, and mining technologies.
Summary "Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Gold rushes accelerated the global circulation of people, goods, capital, and technologies that transformed settler societies around the world. Yet, they are rarely considered in a global perspective. While in the past national histories have emphasized the role of gold rushes as accelerants of state formation, crucibles of national character, and watersheds of political development, the essays in Gold Rush begin from a different premise. They explore gold rushes as connected phenomena and emphasize the destructive power of the search for gold on indigenous communities and the environment, and their role as incubators of racial hierarchy and immigration restriction. The essays in Gold Rush showcase the best and most current research methodologies in global history - comparative, environmental, and transnational - to address these concerns. Gold Rush uses diverse themes and places as vantage points on the nineteenth century gold rushes - from the catalytic effect of the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 to the nostalgic rush to the beaches of Nome, Alaska, fifty years later; from anxious commentators discussing the public good and disorder of gold mining in Georgia, California, and Victoria to the worldwide discussion of the "Chinese Question" and the productivity of non-white labor in Africa; from the assertion of corporate control over lode mining to the destructive environmental and financial consequences of that control. At the heart of this book is the paradoxical power of gold rushes to connect and divide, to enrich and impoverish, to create and destroy"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject California -- Gold discoveries.
California.
Gold mines and mining.
Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects -- California.
Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects.
California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Social aspects.
History.
Chronological Term 1846-1850
Subject Social aspects.
Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Mountford, Benjamin, 1980- editor.
Tuffnell, Stephen, 1987- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Global history of gold rushes. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520294547 (DLC) 2018014110
ISBN 9780520967588 (electronic book)
0520967585 (electronic book)
9780520294547 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)