Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California Paperback - 2000
by Kevin Starr (Editor); Richard J. Orsi (Editor)
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The morning of Wednesday, July 4, 1849, found the sailing ship Henry Lee at 29 54' latitude, 77 44' longitude, off the mid-Pacific coast of South America.
From the rear cover
Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did "civilization" appear to sink so low as in gold-rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back again, rendering everyone's fortunes ephemeral. A volatile assemblage of transients were fixated on "making their pile" and returning home. Rooted in Barbarous Soil, Volume 3 in the four-volume California History Sesquicentennial Series, is the only book of its kind to examine gold-rush society and culture, to present modern interpretations, and to gather up-to-date bibliographies of its topics.
Chapters by leading scholars in their respective fields explore a range of topics including migration and settlement; ethnic diversity, assimilation, cooperation, and conflict; the dispossession of Indians and the Californios; the founding of schools and universities; urban life; women in early California; the sexual frontier; and the development of religion, art, literature, and popular culture.
General themes lend unity to the chapters: reinterpreting gold-rush society and culture for modern Californians; the interplay of traditional cultures and frontier innovation; the impact of the California experience on the nation and the wider world; and the importance and continuing legacy of ethnic and cultural diversity. Together with the other three volumes in the series, Rooted in Barbarous Soil will stand as a monument not only to scholarship on the Gold Rush, but also to central themes in American historical scholarship at the end of the century.Details
- Title Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California
- Author Kevin Starr (Editor); Richard J. Orsi (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edit
- Pages 376
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-10-04
- ISBN 9780520224964 / 0520224965
- Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 9.8 x 7 x 1.1 in (24.89 x 17.78 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress subjects Frontier and pioneer life - California, California - Gold discoveries - Social
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00022228
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.404
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