Author Name
Fetherling, Douglas.
Title THE GOLD CRUSADES: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF GOLD RUSHES, 1849-1929.
Binding Hard Cover
Book Condition Very Good -
Jacket Condition Very Good-
Edition First Edition
Publisher Toronto Macmillan of Canada 1988
ISBN Number
071592876
Seller ID 28821
(259) pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, maps. "The first great international gold rush began in 1849 after news about spectacular discoveries in California leaked out to the rest of the world, setting off one of the largest peace-time migrations in history. The final one, using dog-teams as well as aircraft, took place in the wilderness of northwestern Ontario in the Roaring Twenties, when corporate manoeuvring had nearly eclipsed the fierce individualism so central to the idea of the gold rush. The period saw every type of person - saints and charlatans, nobles and peasants, plutocrats and radicals, Asians, Blacks and Europeans - racing off to the Rocky Mountains, Australia, South Africa or Alaska and the Yukon. As they gained cumulative force, the gold rushes produced certain stock characters: the happy-go-lucky millionaire, the golden-hearted prostitute, the aging veteran of some previous frontier search for one final fling. In every instance, the gold rush was not merely an anarchic type of economic development but a signal and informing event in the history of the host country. In nearly all cases, there was great tension between the forces of authority on the one hand and the miners' instinctual libertarianism on the other. Often the result was violence - followed by reform. (This book) throws new light on a popular subject and ties part of one country's history and folkore to that of the others." Small bump at each corner of boards, slight bump at top of spine, very light browning at bottom edge of spine. Dust jacket has wrinkling and light wear at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, two tiny edge tears archivally taped.
Gold,
Gold
Mines,
Gold
Mining,
Alaska,
Australia,
Ballarat,
Victoria,
Barney
Barnato,
Bathurst,
New
South
Wales,
Bendigo,
Black
Hills,
Dakota
Territory,
Blacks,
Boers,
Boer
War,
Brazil,
British
Columbia,
California,
Cape
Colony,
Cariboo,
George
Washington
Carmack,
Chinese,
Cobalt,
Ontario,
Colorado,
Comstock
Lode,
Goolgardie,
Cripple
Creek,
Dawson,
Yukon
Territory,
Diamonds,
South
Africa,
Dome
Mines,
Durban,
Natal,
Dyea,
Edmonton,
Fraser
River,
Gambling,
Gold
Rushes,
Discoveries,
Hudson,
Hudson's
Bay
Company,
North
American
Indians,
Johannesburg,
Juneau,
Kalgoorlie,
Kimberley,
Klondike,
Fred
LaRose,
James
W.
Marshall,
Melbourne,
Native
Peoples,
Nevada,
New
Zealand,
Nome,
North-west
Mounted
Police,
William
Ogilvie,
Orange
Free
State,
Oregon,
Porcupine
Region,
Prize-Fighting,
Prostitution,
Queensland,
Red
Lake,
Cecil
Rhodes,
St.
Michael,
San
Francisco,
Seattle,
Silver,
Skagway,
South
Porcupine,
Sir
Samuel
Steele,
John
Augustus
Sutter,
Sydney,
Temiskiming,
Timmins,
Toronto,
Yukon
River,
Social
History,
19th
Century,
Early
20th
Century.
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