A global history of gold rushes / edited by Benjamin Mountford and Stephen Tuffnell.

"Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Gold rushes accelerated the global circulation of people, goods, capital, and technologies that transformed settler societies around the world. Yet, they are rarely considered in a global perspective. While in the past national histories have emphasiz...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mountford, Benjamin, 1980- (Editor), Tuffnell, Stephen, 1987- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:California world history library ; 25.
Subjects:

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 i 4500
001 b10233911
003 CoU
008 180322s2018 cauab b 001 0 eng c
005 20230926171259.5
010 |a 2018014110 
019 |a 1029637091 
020 |a 9780520294554  |q paperback ;  |q alkaline paper 
020 |a 0520294556  |q paperback ;  |q alkaline paper 
020 |a 9780520294547  |q hardcover ;  |q alkaline paper 
020 |a 0520294548  |q hardcover ;  |q alkaline paper 
035 |a (OCoLC)ocn1029665628 
035 |a (OCoLC)1029665628  |z (OCoLC)1029637091 
040 |a CU-S/DLC  |b eng  |e rda  |c DLC  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCF  |d ERASA  |d TOH  |d UKMGB  |d YDX  |d OCLCO 
042 |a pcc 
043 |a n-us-ca 
049 |a CODA 
050 0 0 |a F865  |b .G59 2018 
245 0 2 |a A global history of gold rushes /  |c edited by Benjamin Mountford and Stephen Tuffnell. 
264 1 |a Oakland, California :  |b University of California Press,  |c [2018] 
300 |a xix, 323 pages ;  |c 23 cm. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent. 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia. 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier. 
490 1 |a California world history library ;  |v 25. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Global transformations in the age of gold -- Settler societies and gold rush democracy -- Finance, speculation, and the economics of gold rushes -- Expertise, the environment, and mining technologies. 
520 |a "Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Gold rushes accelerated the global circulation of people, goods, capital, and technologies that transformed settler societies around the world. Yet, they are rarely considered in a global perspective. While in the past national histories have emphasized the role of gold rushes as accelerants of state formation, crucibles of national character, and watersheds of political development, the essays in Gold Rush begin from a different premise. They explore gold rushes as connected phenomena and emphasize the destructive power of the search for gold on indigenous communities and the environment, and their role as incubators of racial hierarchy and immigration restriction. The essays in Gold Rush showcase the best and most current research methodologies in global history - comparative, environmental, and transnational - to address these concerns. Gold Rush uses diverse themes and places as vantage points on the nineteenth century gold rushes - from the catalytic effect of the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 to the nostalgic rush to the beaches of Nome, Alaska, fifty years later; from anxious commentators discussing the public good and disorder of gold mining in Georgia, California, and Victoria to the worldwide discussion of the "Chinese Question" and the productivity of non-white labor in Africa; from the assertion of corporate control over lode mining to the destructive environmental and financial consequences of that control. At the heart of this book is the paradoxical power of gold rushes to connect and divide, to enrich and impoverish, to create and destroy"--Provided by publisher. 
651 0 |a California  |x Gold discoveries.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018877. 
650 0 |a Gold mines and mining  |x Social aspects  |z California. 
651 0 |a California  |x History  |y 1846-1850  |x Social aspects. 
650 0 |a Gold mines and mining  |x Social aspects. 
650 7 |a Gold mines and mining.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00944469. 
650 7 |a Gold mines and mining  |x Social aspects.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00944493. 
650 7 |a Social aspects.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01354981. 
651 7 |a California.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01204928. 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628. 
700 1 |a Mountford, Benjamin,  |d 1980-  |e editor.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013122047. 
700 1 |a Tuffnell, Stephen,  |d 1987-  |e editor.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014004542  |1 http://isni.org/isni/0000000427468412. 
776 0 8 |i Online version:  |t Global history of gold rushes.  |d Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]  |z 9780520967588  |w (DLC) 2018017091. 
830 0 |a California world history library ;  |v 25.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001017571. 
907 |a .b102339119  |b 03-19-20  |c 11-16-18 
998 |a nor  |b 12-14-18  |c x  |d m   |e -  |f eng  |g cau  |h 2  |i 1 
907 |a .b102339119  |b 01-03-19  |c 11-16-18 
944 |a MARS - RDA ENRICHED 
907 |a .b102339119  |b 12-14-18  |c 11-16-18 
948 |a lr 
999 f f |i aa8eb417-62f4-5987-aa46-66cb8bdbde56  |s b2a19226-1760-53c5-9510-9ed70a99e456 
952 f f |p Can circulate  |a University of Colorado Boulder  |b Boulder Campus  |c Norlin  |d Norlin Library - Stacks  |e F865 .G59 2018  |h Library of Congress classification  |i book  |m U183074063591  |n 1