Author: William Henry Harrison Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Private Letters and Diaries of Captain Hall
Author: William Henry Harrison Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Daily Life during the California Gold Rush
Author: Thomas Maxwell-Long
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Gold Rush Manliness
Author: Christopher Herbert
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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
The Ultimate Spectacle
Author: Ulrich Keller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134392028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Chloroform, telegraphy, steamships and rifles were distinctly modern features of the Crimean War. Covered by a large corps of reporters, illustrators and cameramen, it also became the first media war in history. For the benefit of the ubiquitous artists and correspondents, both the domestic events were carefully staged, giving the Crimean War an aesthetically alluring, even spectacular character. With their exclusive focus on written sources, historians have consistently overlooked this visual dimension of the Crimean War. Photo-historian Ulrich Keller challenges the traditional literary bias by drawing on a wealth of pictorial materials from scientific diagrams to photographs, press illustration and academic painting. The result is a new and different historical account which emphasizes the careful aesthetic scripting of the war for popular mass consumption at home.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134392028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Chloroform, telegraphy, steamships and rifles were distinctly modern features of the Crimean War. Covered by a large corps of reporters, illustrators and cameramen, it also became the first media war in history. For the benefit of the ubiquitous artists and correspondents, both the domestic events were carefully staged, giving the Crimean War an aesthetically alluring, even spectacular character. With their exclusive focus on written sources, historians have consistently overlooked this visual dimension of the Crimean War. Photo-historian Ulrich Keller challenges the traditional literary bias by drawing on a wealth of pictorial materials from scientific diagrams to photographs, press illustration and academic painting. The result is a new and different historical account which emphasizes the careful aesthetic scripting of the war for popular mass consumption at home.
The Land of Gold and Strangers
Personal Reminiscences
Author: Archibald Constable
Publisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal
Author:
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
Book Description
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay
Author: Frances Burney
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385130751
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385130751
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
The Private Diary of Ananda Rango Pillai
Author: Ān̲antaraṅkap Piḷḷai
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description