Days of gold : the California Gold Rush and the American nation /
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| Язык: | английский |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1997.
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Оглавление:
- California's Golden Revolution: Enormous Wealth and Great Confusion
- Gold Fever: The Beginning
- "This is a Hard Thing, This Breaking Up of Families": Gold and Its Personal Costs
- Journey and Arrival: Coming to California, Coming to Terms
- Old Bonds and New Allegiances: "Me and John Stick Together Like Wood Ticks"
- The Scarcity of Women: "I Have Not Spoken to a Lady for Five Months"
- "I Could Sell Some of the Furniture": Adjustments in the East
- Occupations: The 49ers Begin Work
- "The Real Argonauts of '49": Life and Leisure in the Gold Fields
- The Urban 49ers: "A Very Good Chance to Make Money in This City"
- Women in the California Gold Rush: Duty, Adventure, and Opportunity
- Harsh Realities: Hard Luck and Hard Labor in the Gold Fields
- "Capitalists Will Take Hold": High-Stakes Investments and Deferred Returns
- Threats from Within, Threats from Without: Fear, Hostility, and Violence in the Gold Rush
- Waiting: A Permanent Condition
- Lost Love, Lost Families
- The Permanent Lure of Success, the Enduring Shame of Failure: "When a Person Gits to California It Is Hard to Say or Tell When He Gets Away"
- The Ripples Subside: The End of the Gold Rush
- "The Days of Old, the Days of Gold, the Days of Forty-Nine": The Gold Rush and Memory
- Historians and Sources.