American Alchemy
The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture
California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy, however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption.Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the unseen forty-niners--women who stayed back East while the…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8078-4856-2
- EAN: 9780807848562
- Produktnummer: 1831645
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 358 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.1 cm 577 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 577
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