Format:
222 S.
Edition:
Rev. ed.
ISBN:
9780802080462
,
0802080464
Content:
Among the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat - only to set in motion the diamond and gold rushes that transformed southern Africa. And so it went
Content:
Fetherling argues that the gold rushes in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same causes and results, the same characters and characteristics. He posits that they were in fact a single discontinuous event, an expression of the British imperial experience and nineteenth-century liberalism. He does so with dash and style and with a sharp eye for the telling anecdote, the out-of-the-way document, and the bold connection between seemingly unrelated disciplines
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Geography
,
Ethnology
Keywords:
Goldrausch
;
Geschichte 1849-1929
Author information:
Fetherling, George 1949-
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