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Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial...
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by Kevin Starr and Richard J. Orsi
Sales Rank: 1301393
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$17.00
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 384 pages
Published by: University of California PressEdition: 1st Edition October 16, 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0520224973
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0520224971
Book Dimensions:
10.5 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 2.1 pounds
Book 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.
About The Author
Kevin Starr is California State Librarian and University Professor at the University of Southern California. He is the author of the acclaimed multi-volume series Americans and the California Dream (1973-1998). Richard J. Orsi is Professor of History at California State University, Hayward, and editor of California History. He is the coeditor of Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush (California, 1998) and A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California (California, 1999).
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