The Gold Rushes

Author : Benjamin Mountford,Stephen Tuffnell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520967588

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A Global History of Gold Rushes by Benjamin Mountford,Stephen Tuffnell Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher Herbert
Publisher : Emil and Kathleen Sick Book We
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0295744138

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Gold Rush Manliness by Christopher Herbert Pdf

"The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. And yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: the same people popularly remembered as strait-laced, repressed, and order-loving. How do we make sense of this difference? Examining the closely linked gold rushes in California and British Columbia, historian Christopher Herbert shows that gold rushers worried about the meaning of white manhood in the near-anarchic, ethnically mixed societies that grew up around the mines. Their anxieties about reproducing the white male dominance they were accustomed to played a central role in the construction of colonial regimes. As white gold rushers flocked to the mines, they encountered a wide range of people they considered inferior and potentially dangerous to white dominance, including Indigenous people, Latin Americans, Australians, and Chinese. The way that white miners interacted with these groups reflected the distinct political principles and strategies of the US and British colonial governments, as well as the ideas about race and respectability the newcomers brought with them. In addition to renovating traditional understandings of the Pacific Slope gold rushes, Herbert argues that historians' understanding of white manliness has been too fixated on the Eastern United States and Britain. In the nineteenth century, popular attention largely focused on the West, and it was in the gold fields and the cities they spawned that new ideas of white manliness emerged, prefiguring transformations elsewhere."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Donald J. Bourdon
Publisher : Royal British Columbia Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 077266854X

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New Perspectives on the Gold Rush by Donald J. Bourdon Pdf

In 1858, reports of gold found on the Fraser River spurred tens of thousands of people--mostly men--to rush into the territory we now call British Columbia. They came with visions of fortune in their eyes. The lucky ones struck it rich, but most left penniless or died trying for the motherlode. Some stayed behind and helped build the colony and the province of British Columbia.

Author : Natalie Hyde
Publisher : Uncovering the Past
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778747484

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Gold Rushes by Natalie Hyde Pdf

This comprehensive title is a thought-provoking examination of how early gold rushes shaped settlement and industry in North America. Using material from the 1848 California Gold Rush, the 1896 Klondike Gold Rush, and other rushes in Georgia, Montana, and British Columbia, primary and secondary sources about these rushes are examined with respect to race and ethnicity, the displacement of Indigenous peoples, and different perspectives on law and order in the emerging West. Readers will be encouraged to think critically about labor and environmental practices, and the relationships between settlers and Indigenous people both in the past and today. Teacher's guide available.

Author : David Hill
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781864711301

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The Gold Rush by David Hill Pdf

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.

Author : Fred Rosen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504024488

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Gold! by Fred Rosen Pdf

A riveting true account of gold rush fever in mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with the thrilling exploits of daring fortune seekers and dangerous outlaws America was never the same after January 24, 1848. It was on that day that a carpenter named James Marshall discovered a tiny nugget of gold while building a sawmill at Sutter’s Fort, just east of Sacramento, California. Marshall’s find ignited a fever the nation had never known before, drawing people from all over the country to the West Coast with high hopes of getting rich quick. Over the next six years, three hundred thousand prospectors raced to the California gold fields to make their fortunes, leaving their lands and families behind in order to chase a dream of easy wealth, but all too often encountering a reality of lawlessness, disease, cruelty, and death. A former columnist for the New York Times, author Fred Rosen takes readers back to the seminal moment when the American dream exploded. Chock full of fascinating details, unforgettable characters, and shocking real-life events, the captivating true story of the California gold rush brings an era of unparalleled change to breathtaking life. Rosen’s enthralling history of the gold rush of 1848 demonstrates how this golden ideal was supplanted by a culture of selfishness and greed that endures in America to this very day.

Author : Robin May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Australia
ISBN : UVA:X000151409

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The Gold Rushes by Robin May Pdf

Author : William Parker Morrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN : UCAL:$B77812

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The Gold Rushes by William Parker Morrell Pdf

Author : Vardis Fisher,Opal Laurel Holmes,Opal Laurel Fisher
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : 087004043X

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Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West by Vardis Fisher,Opal Laurel Holmes,Opal Laurel Fisher Pdf

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Vardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes bring together the stories of all of the remarkable men and women and all of the violent contrasts that made up one of the most entrhalling chapters in American history. Fisher, a respected scholar and versatile creative writer, devoted three years to the writing of this book.

Author : Mae Ngai
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393634174

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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics by Mae Ngai Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Bancroft Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Cundill History Prize Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize How Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race. In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction between Chinese and white settlers on the goldfields of California, Australia, and South Africa catalyzed a global battle over “the Chinese Question”: would the United States and the British Empire outlaw Chinese immigration? This distinguished history of the Chinese diaspora and global capitalism chronicles how a feverish alchemy of race and money brought Chinese people to the West and reshaped the nineteenth-century world. Drawing on ten years of research across five continents, prize-winning historian Mae Ngai narrates the story of the thousands of Chinese who left their homeland in pursuit of gold, and how they formed communities and organizations to help navigate their perilous new world. Out of their encounters with whites, and the emigrants’ assertion of autonomy and humanity, arose the pernicious western myth of the “coolie” laborer, a racist stereotype used to drive anti-Chinese sentiment. By the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and the British Empire had answered “the Chinese Question” with laws that excluded Chinese people from immigration and citizenship. Ngai explains how this happened and argues that Chinese exclusion was not extraneous to the emergent global economy but an integral part of it. The Chinese Question masterfully links important themes in world history and economics, from Europe’s subjugation of China to the rise of the international gold standard and the invention of racist, anti-Chinese stereotypes that persist to this day.

Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806181219

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The World Rushed In by J. S. Holliday Pdf

When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.

Author : Jim Richards
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781925164022

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Gold Rush by Jim Richards Pdf

When young Jim Richards left the army to make to chase a dream, he had no language skills, no money and no idea, just the kind of gold lust that has driven fortune hunters throughout history. And when he struck gold and diamonds in the remote rivers of Guyana, his problems and his success grew in equal measure. Jim Richards has done it all: dived for diamonds in the piranha-infested rivers of South America; discovered a fabulously rich goldmine in the Australian outback; got caught up in the world's biggest mining scam in Indonesia; and even started a gold rush in the war-torn jungles of Laos.

Author : Dan Drollette (Jr.)
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Endangered species
ISBN : 9780307407047

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Gold Rush in the Jungle by Dan Drollette (Jr.) Pdf

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Author : Paula Mitchell Marks
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803282478

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Precious Dust by Paula Mitchell Marks Pdf

Material culled from letters, diaries, and other firsthand accounts reconstructs the experiences of people involved in the Gold Rush, showing not only what propelled them westward, but how they met the challenges of their journey

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307481221

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The Age of Gold by H. W. Brands Pdf

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history" (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams). The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America’s imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. H.W. Brands tells his epic story from multiple perspectives: of adventurers John and Jessie Fremont, entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the wry observer Samuel Clemens—side by side with prospectors, soldiers, and scoundrels. He imparts a visceral sense of the distances they traveled, the suffering they endured, and the fortunes they made and lost. Impressive in its scholarship and overflowing with life, The Age of Gold is history in the grand traditions of Stephen Ambrose and David McCullough.