A golden state mining and economic development in gold rush California /
| Other Authors: | Rawls, James J., Orsi, Richard J., Smith-Baranzini, Marlene., EBSCOhost. |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
[1999]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Series: |
California history sesquicentennial series ;
2. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.