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Author Roberts, Brian, 1957-

Title American alchemy : the California Gold Rush and middle-class culture / Brian Roberts
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : illustrations
Series Cultural studies of the United States
Cultural studies of the United States.
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. California Gold and Filthy Lucre; 2. Gold Fever as a Cure; 3. Husbands and Wives; 4. Numberless Highways to Fairy Grottos; 5. A Great and Perverse Paradise; Section of Illustrations; 6. California Is a Humbug; 7. Widows and Helpmates; 8. A Wild, Free, Disorderly, Grotesque Society; 9. The Prude Fails; 10. The End of the Flush Times; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Summary California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by a rough and rebellious figure; a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. This work challenges this stereotypical portrait
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- California
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Pioneers -- California -- History -- 19th century
Pioneers -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century
Middle class -- California -- History -- 19th century
Middle class -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Frontier and pioneer life
Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects
Middle class
Pioneers
Social conditions
Gold Rush.
Dagelijks leven.
Frontier.
Middenklassen.
Mittelstand
Goldrausch
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life -- California.
Middle class -- California.
Middle class -- Northeastern States.
Pioneers -- California.
Pioneers -- Northeastern States.
SUBJECT California -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects
California -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Northeastern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Subject California
Northeastern States
West United States
Kalifornien
California -- Gold discoveries.
California -- Social conditions.
Northeastern States -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99048082
ISBN 080786093X
9780807860939