Author: William Henry Harrison HallPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Private Letters and Diaries of Captain Hall
Author: William Henry Harrison HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Daily Life during the California Gold Rush
Author: Thomas Maxwell-LongPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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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.
The Democratic Dilemma
Author: Randolph A. RothPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521317733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Democratic Dilemma seeks to explain Vermonters' extraordinary faith and idealism.
Gold Rush Manliness
Author: Christopher HerbertPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295744146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. Examining the closely linked gold rushes in California and British Columbia, historian Christopher Herbert shows that these men worried about the meaning of their manhood in the near-anarchic, ethnically mixed societies that grew up around the mines. As white gold rushers emigrated west, they encountered a wide range of people they considered inferior and potentially dangerous to white dominance, including Latin American, Chinese, and Indigenous peoples. The way that white miners interacted with these groups reflected their conceptions of race and morality, as well as the distinct political principles and strategies of the US and British colonial governments. The white miners were accustomed to white male domination, and their anxiety to continue it played a central role in the construction of colonial regimes. In addition to renovating traditional understandings of the Pacific Slope gold rushes, Herbert argues that historians’ understanding of white manliness has been too fixated on the eastern United States and Britain. In the nineteenth century, popular attention largely focused on the West. It was in the gold fields and the cities they spawned that new ideas of white manliness emerged, prefiguring transformations elsewhere.
New Arrivals in Californiana
Author: The Story of a Regiment of Horse
Author: Ralph Legge Pomeroy (Hon.)Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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The Land of Gold and Strangers
Author: Stacey L. SmithMemoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
Author: John Gibson LockhartPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The Journal of the Rev. John Wesley
Author: John WesleyUnited Service Journal
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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