03835nam 2200685 450 991045973660332120200520144314.01-4426-5998-X1-4426-5539-910.3138/9781442659988(CKB)3710000000324292(EBL)3296667(SSID)ssj0001403617(PQKBManifestationID)12593559(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403617(PQKBWorkID)11365575(PQKB)10160432(MiAaPQ)EBC4670217(CEL)417751(OCoLC)905361922(CaBNVSL)thg00601998(MiAaPQ)EBC3296667(DE-B1597)465614(OCoLC)944178577(DE-B1597)9781442659988(Au-PeEL)EBL4670217(CaPaEBR)ebr11256731(OCoLC)958580617(EXLCZ)99371000000032429220160921h19971997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe gold crusades a social history of gold rushes, 1849-1929 /Douglas FetherlingRevised edition.Toronto, Ontario ;Buffalo, New York ;London, England :University of Toronto Press,1997.©19971 online resource (231 p.)HeritageIncludes index.0-8020-8046-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-197) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Gold Crusaders -- 1. The California Delusion -- 2. The Crown and the Southern Cross -- 3. To the Ends of the Empire -- 4. Silver into Gold -- 5. Titans in South Africa -- 6. The Rand and Western Australia -- 7. Many Roads to Dawson -- 8. Climax and Retreat -- 9. Last Stands -- L'Envoi -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index Among the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat - only to set in motion the diamond and gold rushes that transformed southern Africa. And so it went.Most previous historians of the gold rushes have tended to view them as acts of spontaneous nationalism. Each country likes to see its own gold rush as the one that either shaped those that followed or epitomized all the rest. InThe Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929, Douglas Fetherling takes a different approach.Fetherling argues that the gold rushes in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same causes and results, the same characters and characteristics. He posits that they were in fact a single discontinuous event, an expression of the British imperial experience and nineteenth-century liberalism. He does so with dash and style and with a sharp eye for the telling anecdote, the out-of-the-way document, and the bold connection between seemingly unrelated disciplines.Originally published by Macmillan of Canada, 1988.Gold mines and miningHistoryGold mines and miningSocial aspectsElectronic books.Gold mines and miningHistory.Gold mines and miningSocial aspects.338.2/741/09Fetherling George1949-929348MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459736603321The gold crusades2088728UNINA