A Global History of Gold Rushes / Benjamin Mountford, Stephen Tuffnell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mountford, Benjamin, Editor.

Tuffnell, Stephen, Editor.

Series:

California world history library ; 25.

California World History Library ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gold mines and mining--Social aspects--California.

Gold mines and mining.

Gold mines and mining--Social aspects.

California--Gold discoveries.

California.

California--History--1846-1850--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface / Darwin, John / Sexton, Jay

Editors' Acknowledgments

Timeline and Map: Selected Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes

Part One. Global Transformations in the Age of Gold

1. Seeking a Global History of Gold / Mountford, Benjamin / Tuffnell, Stephen

2. California, Coincidence, and Empire / West, Elliott

Part Two. Settler Societies and Gold Rush Democracy

3. Gold and the Public in the Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes / Goodman, David

4. The Pacific Gold Rushes and the Struggle for Order / Mountford, Benjamin

5. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, 1849-1910 / Ngai, Mae M.

Part Three. Finance, Speculation, and the Economics of Gold Rushes

6. Frenzied Finance: Gold Mining in the Globalizing South, circa 1886-1896 / Phimister, Ian

7. Dreams of a "Johannesburg of West Africa": Th e Gold Coast's Moment in the Imperial Rush for Gold / Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra

8. Creating a Global Industry? Geology, Capital, and Company Formation on the Goldfields of the Industrial Age / Eklund, Erik

Part Four. Expertise, the Environment, and Mining Technologies

9. The Real Wealth of the World: Hydraulic Mining and the Environment in the Circum-Pacific Goldfields / Isenberg, Andrew C.

10. Engineering Gold Rushes: Engineers and the Mechanics of Global Connectivity / Tuffnell, Stephen

11. Grounding Capitalism: Geology, Labor, and the Nome Gold Rush / Demuth, Bathsheba

Select Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520967588

0520967585

OCLC:

1031054480