A Global History of Gold Rushes

Benjamin Mountford, Stephen Tuffnell

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English

California Uni Pr Trade
16 October 2018

History

Series: California World History Library

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.

Edited by: Benjamin Mountford, Stephen Tuffnell
Imprint: California Uni Pr Trade
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 25
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520294554
ISBN 10: 0520294556
Series: California World History Library
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 16 October 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Benjamin Mountford, Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, is the author of Britain, China, & Colonial Australia and co-editor of Fighting Words: Fifteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World. Stephen Tuffnell, Associate Professor of Modern US History at the University of Oxford, is currently completing Emigrant Foreign Relations: Independence and Interdependence in the Atlantic, c.1789-1902, and researches US history from a global perspective.

Reviews for A Global History of Gold Rushes

This collection moves the study of migration, finance, and technology forward in consistently strong essays that are as readable as they are informative. * H-Net *