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Rooted in Barbarous Soil – People, Culture, & Community in Gold Rush California: California History Sesquicentennial Series

Autor Kevin Starr
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2000
Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did "civilization" appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back again, rendering everyone's fortunes ephemeral. Competition, jealousy, and racism fueled individual and mass violence. Yet, in the very midst of this turbulence, social and cultural forms emerged, gained strength, spread, and took hold. Rooted in Barbarous Soil, Volume 3 in the four-volume California History Sesquicentennial Series, is the only book of its kind to examine gold rush society and culture, to present modern interpretations, and to gather up-to-date bibliographies of its topics.

Chapters by leading scholars in their respective fields explore a range of topics including migration and settlement; ethnic diversity, assimilation, cooperation, and conflict; the dispossession of Indians and the Californios; the founding of schools and universities; urban life; women in early California; the sexual frontier; and the development of religion, art, literature, and popular culture. Many rarely seen illustrations supplement the text.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780520224964
ISBN-10: 0520224965
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 180 x 251 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: University of California Press
Seria California History Sesquicentennial Series


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Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did 'civilization' appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. This title examines gold rush society and culture, to present interpretations, and to gather bibliographies of its topics.