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Title: Rooted in Barbarous Soil
Condition: New
Subtitle: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California
Author: Kevin Starr
Contributor: Kevin Starr (Edited by), Richard J. Orsi (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520224965
EAN: 9780520224964
ISBN: 9780520224964
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: History
Release Date: 04/10/2000
Description: 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. Competition, jealousy, and racism fueled individual and mass violence. Yet, in the very midst of this turbulence, social and cultural forms emerged, gained strength, spread, and took hold. "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. Many rarely seen illustrations supplement the text.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 178mm
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 726g
Book Series: California History Sesquicentennial Series
Release Year: 2000

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