California Gold-rush Plays
Author | : Glenn Loney |
Publisher | : AJ Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Glenn Loney |
Publisher | : AJ Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark A. Eifler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2016-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317910214 |
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 | : Glenn Meredith Loney |
Publisher | : Olympic Marketing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : 9780933826359 |
Author | : Kate Shoup |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 150260969X |
On January 24, 1848, pioneer James W. Marshall discovered gold in central California. When word got out, gold fever set in, drawing hundreds of thousands of pioneers to the state hoping to strike it rich. Discover the circumstances and effects of this event in The California Gold Rush.
Author | : Sheila Rivera |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1617143391 |
Discusses the early history of California, focusing especially on the gold rush period.
Author | : Thomas Maxwell-Long |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2014-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This comprehensive narrative history of the California Gold Rush describes daily life during this historic period, documenting its wide-reaching effects and examining the significant individuals and organizations of the time. It is easy to see the vestiges of the California Gold Rush in the state's modern culture. The San Francisco 49ers football team are named after the term given to those who flocked to California in 1849 in search of gold; California is nicknamed "The Golden State;" and the official state motto is "Eureka" meaning "I have found it" in Greek-a reference to mining success. But the Gold Rush was not only a pivotal event with lasting impact in California; it also greatly affected America as a whole and global society. This book examines the historical significances of the California Gold Rush, beginning with life in California prior to the Gold Rush and European colonization and concluding with information regarding contemporary California. Readers will gain historical insights from the highly detailed explorations of how life in California evolved and understand the enormous impact of an event over 160 years ago on present-day America.
Author | : Linda Jacobs Altman |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766039537 |
"Read about when gold was discovered in California, and how this triggered one of the most amazing migrations in history"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : John Walton Caughey |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520338847 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1948.
Author | : Marty Gould |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2011-05-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1136740546 |
In this study, Gould argues that it was in the imperial capital’s theatrical venues that the public was put into contact with the places and peoples of empire. Plays and similar forms of spectacle offered Victorian audiences the illusion of unmediated access to the imperial periphery; separated from the action by only the thin shadow of the proscenium arch, theatrical audiences observed cross-cultural contact in action. But without narrative direction of the sort found in novels and travelogues, theatregoers were left to their own interpretive devices, making imperial drama both a powerful and yet uncertain site for the transmission of official imperial ideologies. Nineteenth-century playwrights fed the public’s interest in Britain’s Empire by producing a wide variety of plays set in colonial locales: India, Australia, and—to a lesser extent—Africa. These plays recreated the battles that consolidated Britain’s hold on overseas territories, dramatically depicted western humanitarian intervention in indigenous cultural practices, celebrated images of imperial supremacy, and occasionally criticized the sexual and material excesses that accompanied the processes of empire-building. An active participant in the real-world drama of empire, the Victorian theatre produced popular images that reflected, interrogated, and reinforced imperial policy. Indeed, it was largely through plays and spectacles that the British public vicariously encountered the sights and sounds of the distant imperial periphery. Empire as it was seen on stage was empire as it was popularly known: the repetitions of character types, plot scenarios, and thematic concerns helped forge an idea of empire that, though largely imaginary, entertained, informed, and molded the theatre-going British public.