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9780520224971

Rooted in Barbarous Soil

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520224971

  • ISBN10:

    0520224973

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-10-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr
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Summary

The third in a four-volume series commemorating California's sesquicentennial, this volume brings together the best of the new scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Gold Rush, written in an accessible style and generously illustrated with with black and white and color photographs.

Author Biography

Kevin Starr, California State Librarian, is also University Professor at the University of Southern California Richard J. Orsi is Professor of History at California State University, Hayward

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Michael Duty
Richard J. Orsi
Rooted in Barbarous Soil: An Introduction to Gold Rush Society and Culture
1(24)
Kevin Starr
No Boy's Play: Migration and Settlement in Early Gold Rush California
25(19)
Malcolm Rohrbough
A People of Exceptional Character: Ethnic Diversity, Nativism, and Racism in the California Gold Rush
44(42)
Sucheng Chan
``Because he is a liar and a thief'': Conquering the Residents of ``Old'' California, 1850-1880
86(27)
James A. Sandos
``All hands have gone downtown'': Urban Places in Gold Rush California
113(28)
Robert Phelps
Weaving a Different World: Women and the California Gold Rush
141(28)
Nancy J. Taniguchi
``As jolly as a clam at high water'': The Rise of Art in Gold Rush California
169(35)
Anthony Kirk
Romancing the Gold Rush: The Literature of the California Frontier
204(22)
Michael Kowalewski
From Indifference to Imperative Duty: Educating Children in Early California
226(24)
Irving G. Hendrick
Phelan's Cemetery: Religion in the Urbanizing West, 1850-1869, in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento
250(30)
Steven M. Avella
Popular Culture on the Golden Shore
280(36)
Gary F. Kurutz
``My own private life'': Toward a History of Desire in Gold Rush California
316(31)
Susan Lee Johnson
List of Contributors 347(4)
Index 351

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