A golden state : mining and economic development in gold rush California - Rawls, James J.; Orsi, Richard J.; Smith-Baranzini, Marlene (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1999)
A golden state : an introduction / James J. Rawls -- Making old tools work better : pragmatic adaptation and innovation in Gold-Rush technology / Ronald H. Limbaugh -- Capitalism comes to the diggings : from Gold-Rush adventure to corporate enterprise / Maureen A. Jung -- "We all live more like brutes than humans" : labor and capital in the Gold Rush / Daniel Cornford -- Environmental changes before and after the Gold Rush / Raymond F. Dasmann -- "I am resolved not to interfere, but permit all to work freely" : the Gold Rush and American resource law / Donald J. Pisani -- Mother lode for the West : California mining men and methods / Duane A. Smith -- Seeing the elephant / Anthony Kirk -- The Gold Rush and the beginnings of California industry / David J. St. Clair -- From hard money to branch banking : California banking in the Gold-Rush economy / Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti -- "Property of every kind" : ranching and farming during the Gold-Rush era / Lawrence James Jelinek -- The golden skein : California's Gold-Rush transportation network / A.C.W. Bethel -- A veritable revolution : the global economic significance of the California Gold Rush / Gerald D. Nash.
"Published in association with the California Historical Society."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: California -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Gold mines and mining -- California -- History -- 19th century; Californie -- Conditions économiques -- 19e siècle.; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History; Economic history; Gold mines and mining; California; 1800-1899; History