The World Rushed In

Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : California
ISBN : 9780520214026

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Rush for Riches by J. S. Holliday Pdf

Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.

Author : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393292077

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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush by Susan Lee Johnson Pdf

Winner of the Bancroft Prize The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting the surprising ways in which the conventions of identity—ethnic, national, and sexual—were reshaped. With a keen eye for character and story, she shows us how this peculiar world evolved over time, and how our cultural memory of the Gold Rush took root.

Author : Mark A. Eifler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317910213

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The California Gold Rush by Mark A. Eifler Pdf

In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspiring to start new lives in California financed their journey West on the assumption that they would be able to find wealth. Some were successful, many were not, but they all permanently changed the face of the American West. In this text, Mark Eifler examines the experiences of the miners, demonstrates how the gold rush affected the United States, and traces the development of California and the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century. This migration dramatically shifted transportation systems in the US, led to a more powerful federal role in the West, and brought about mining regulation that lasted well into the twentieth century. Primary sources from the era and web materials help readers comprehend what it was like for these nineteenth-century Americans who gambled everything on the pursuit of gold.

Author : Kenneth N. Owens
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803235704

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Riches for All by Kenneth N. Owens Pdf

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.

Author : Joshua Paddison
Publisher : Heyday
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173010618274

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A World Transformed by Joshua Paddison Pdf

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.

Author : Dan Drollette (Jr.)
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Kate Shoup
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502617804

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Life As a Prospector in the California Gold Rush by Kate Shoup Pdf

People often dream of becoming rich. However, in the mid-1800s, people really could become rich overnight. The California gold rush brought many men to the area. These prospectors searched for gold. Some became lucky, while others lost all of their life savings. This book describes the history of the California gold rush and highlights what life was like for the men, women, and children who lived through the era.

Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0520214013

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Rush for Riches by J. S. Holliday Pdf

Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.

Author : Mark A. Eifler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317910220

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The California Gold Rush by Mark A. Eifler Pdf

In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspiring to start new lives in California financed their journey West on the assumption that they would be able to find wealth. Some were successful, many were not, but they all permanently changed the face of the American West. In this text, Mark Eifler examines the experiences of the miners, demonstrates how the gold rush affected the United States, and traces the development of California and the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century. This migration dramatically shifted transportation systems in the US, led to a more powerful federal role in the West, and brought about mining regulation that lasted well into the twentieth century. Primary sources from the era and web materials help readers comprehend what it was like for these nineteenth-century Americans who gambled everything on the pursuit of gold.

Author : Kate Geary
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : 9781780771809

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Our Land, Our Lives': Time out in the global land rush by Kate Geary Pdf

Author : Logan Cochrane,Nathan Andrews
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030607890

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The Transnational Land Rush in Africa by Logan Cochrane,Nathan Andrews Pdf

This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African ‘land rush’, providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted. The research will be a critical resource for students, researchers, advocates and policy makers as it provides detailed, long-term assessments of a broad range of national contexts. In addition to the specific questions of land and investment, this book sheds light on the broader international political economy of development in different African countries.

Author : John C. Weaver
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773570962

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Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 by John C. Weaver Pdf

He also underscores the tragic history of the indigenous peoples of these regions and shoes how they came to lose "possession" of their land to newly formed governments made up of Europeans with European interests at heart. Weaver shows that the enormous efforts involved in defining and registering large numbers of newly carved-out parcels of property for reallocation during the Great Land Rush were instrumental in the emergence of much stronger concepts of property rights and argues that this period was marked by a complete disregard for previous notions of restraint on dreams of unlimited material possibility. Today, while the traditional forms of colonization that marked the Great Land Rush are no longer practiced by the European powers and their progeny in the new world, the legacy of this period can be seen in the western powers' insatiable thirst for economic growth, including newer forms of economic colonization of underdeveloped countries, and a continuing evolution of the concepts of property rights, including the development and increasing growth in importance of intellectual property rights.

Author : Dan Drollette, Jr.
Publisher : Crown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307955876

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Gold Rush in the Jungle by Dan Drollette, Jr. Pdf

An engrossing, adventure-filled account of the rush to discover and save Vietnam's most extraordinary animals Deep in the jungle where the borders of Vietnam meet those of Laos and Cambodia is a region known as "the lost world." Large mammals never seen before by Western science have popped up frequently in these mountains in the last decade, including a half-goat/half-ox, a deer that barks, and a close relative of the nearly extinct Javan rhino. In an age when scientists are excited by discovering a new kind of tube worm, the thought of finding and naming a new large terrestrial mammal is astonishing, and wildlife biologists from all over the world are flocking to this dangerous region. The result is a race between preservation and destruction. Containing research gathered from famous biologists, conservationists, indigenous peoples, former POWs, ex-Viet Cong, and the first U.S. ambassador to Vietnam since the war's end, Gold Rush in the Jungle goes deep into the valleys, hills, and hollows of Vietnam to explore the research, the international trade in endangered species, the lingering effects of Agent Orange, and the effort of a handful of biologists to save the world's rarest animals.

Author : Benjamin Mountford,Stephen Tuffnell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 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.