The Food Supply Problem Of The California Gold Mines 1848 1855
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The World Rushed In
Author | : J. S. Holliday |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2015-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806183527 |
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.
Rethinking Environmental History
Author | : Alf Hornborg |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780759110281 |
This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems over time. Alf Hornborg has brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, economic processes, with a long-term, historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth system with studies of the World system, and to reconceptualize human-environmental relations and the challenges of global sustainability. Immanuel Wallerstein, renowned Yale sociologist and originator of the world-system concept, closes the volume with his reflections on the intellectual, moral, and political implications of global environmental change.
Hellacious California!
Author | : Gary Noy |
Publisher | : Heyday.ORIM |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2020-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1597145041 |
“Teems with bittersweet compounds of 19th-century nefariousness, including . . . gambling, knife fights, the demon drink, con artistry, and prostitution.” —Los Angeles Review of Books In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things,” including “purer liquors . . . finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans [sic]” than anywhere else in America. Lured by boons of gold and other exploitable resources, California’s settler population mushroomed under Mexican and early American control, and this period of rapid transformation gave rise to a freewheeling culture best epitomized by its entertainments. Hellacious California tours the rambunctious and occasionally appalling amusements of the Golden State: gambling, gun duels, knife fights, gracious dining and gluttony, prostitution, fandangos, cigars, con artistry, and the demon drink. Historian Gary Noy unearths myriad primary sources, many of which have never before been published, to spin his true tall tales that are by turns humorous and horrifying. Whether detailing the exploits of an inebriated stallion, gambling parlors as a reinforcement and subversion of racial norms, armed skirmishes over eggs, or the ins and outs of the “Spirit Lover” scam, Noy expertly situates these stories in the context of a live-for-the-moment society characterized by audacity, bigotry, and risk. “Confidently carries the reader into the everyday lives of early Californians. The focus on Californians’ popular pastimes . . . with an eye on vice, decadence, and scandal, makes this book a rowdy tour.” —Dr. Patrick Ettinger, Professor of History, California State University, Sacramento; Former Director of CSUS Public History Program and the Capital Campus Oral History Program
Register of the University of California
Author | : University of California (1868-1952) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 890 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Universities and colleges |
ISBN | : |
Chinese Labor in California, 1850-1880
Author | : Ping Qiu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Alien labor, Chinese |
ISBN | : |
Gold!
Author | : Fred Rosen |
Publisher | : Running PressBook Pub |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2005-07-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781560256809 |
A lively history of the 1848 California Gold Rush reveals how the hysteria over gold on the West Coast and the subsequent exodus of fortune seekers helped cement the "get-rich-quick" psychology within American culture.