Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 353 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780520922075
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0520922077
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0585031703
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9780585031705
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0520216598
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9780520216594
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9780520206229
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0520206223
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-346) and index
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California's Golden Revolution: Enormous Wealth and Great Confusion - Gold Fever: The Beginning - "This is a Hard Thing, This Breaking Up of Families": Gold and Its Personal Costs - Journey and Arrival: Coming to California, Coming to Terms - Old Bonds and New Allegiances: "Me and John Stick Together Like Wood Ticks" - The Scarcity of Women: "I Have Not Spoken to a Lady for Five Months" - "I Could Sell Some of the Furniture": Adjustments in the East - Occupations: The 49ers Begin Work - "The Real Argonauts of '49": Life and Leisure in the Gold Fields - The Urban 49ers: "A Very Good Chance to Make Money in This City" - Women in the California Gold Rush: Duty, Adventure, and Opportunity - Harsh Realities: Hard Luck and Hard Labor in the Gold Fields - "Capitalists Will Take Hold": High-Stakes Investments and Deferred Returns - Threats from Within, Threats from Without: Fear, Hostility, and Violence in the Gold Rush - Waiting: A Permanent Condition - Lost Love, Lost Families - The Permanent Lure of Success, the Enduring Shame of Failure: "When a Person Gits to California It Is Hard to Say or Tell When He Gets Away" - The Ripples Subside: The End of the Gold Rush - "The Days of Old, the Days of Gold, the Days of Forty-Nine": The Gold Rush and Memory - Historians and Sources.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rohrbough, Malcolm J Days of gold Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997 ISBN 0520206223
Sprache:
Englisch
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