Gold Rush Capitalists
Title | Gold Rush Capitalists PDF eBook |
Author | Mark A. Eifler |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780826328229 |
Examines the interaction of capitalism and community in the founding of the gold rush city of Sacramento, and of the clashes between miners and city founders.
The California Gold Rush
Title | The California Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Mark A. Eifler |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2016-07-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317910222 |
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.
America's Last Gold Rush
Title | America's Last Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Nienaber |
Publisher | Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2004-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780805962482 |
After the Gold Rush
Title | After the Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Stewart Lansley |
Publisher | Random House (UK) |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Capitalism |
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Today Britain, like most Western countries, is richer than ever. More people have more things. But at the same time the divisions between rich and poor, between haves and have-nots, are so deep and painful that society itself is in real danger of coming apart. In this study the Henley Centre examines the shift from the welfare capitalism of the 1980s to our present state of economic and political confusion, illuminating trends with data from its own studies and a range of other material to suggest where we may be going next.
A Global History of Gold Rushes
Title | A Global History of Gold Rushes PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Mountford |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2018-10-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520967585 |
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.
What Was the Gold Rush?
Title | What Was the Gold Rush? PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Holub |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2013-02-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1101610298 |
In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget from history is brought to life!
El Dorado in West Africa
Title | El Dorado in West Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond E. Dumett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Capitalism |
ISBN | 9780821411971 |
El Dorado in West Africa explores the first modern gold rush of Ghana in all its dimensions - land, labor, capital, traditional African mining, technology, transport, management, the clash of cultures, and colonial rule. The rich tapestry of events is textured with unexpected ironies and paradoxes. Professor Dumett tells the story of the expatriate-led gold boom of 1875-1900 against the background of colonial capitalism. Through the use of field interviews, he also brings to light the expansion of a parallel "African gold-mining frontier, " which outpaced the expatriate mining sector.