| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
A golden state/ editors James J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi ; associate editor Marlene Smith-Baranzini ; illustrations editor Anthony Kirk. |
| Reminder of title: |
mining and economic development in gold rush California / |
| other author: |
Orsi, Richard J. |
| Published: |
Berkeley, Calif. :University of California Press, : c1999., |
| Description: |
xii, 313 p. :ill. (some col.) ;26 cm. |
| Notes: |
"Published in association with the California Historical Society." |
| Series: |
California history sesquicentennial series ; |
| [NT 15003449]: |
A golden state : an introduction / James J. Rawls -- Making old tools work better : pragmatic adaptation and innovation in Gold-Rush technology/ Ronald H. Limbaugh -- Capitalism comes to the diggings : from Gold-Rush adventure to corporate enterprise / Maureen A. Jung -- "We all live more like brutes than humans" : labor and capital in the Gold Rush/ Daniel Cornford -- Environmental changes before and after the Gold Rush / Raymond F. Dasmann -- "I am resolved not to interfere, but permit all to work freely" : the Gold Rush and American resource law/ Donald J. Pisani -- Mother lode for the West : California mining men and methods / Duane A. Smith -- Seeing the elephant / Anthony Kirk -- The Gold Rush and the beginnings of California industry/ David J. St. Clair -- From hard money to branch banking : California banking in the Gold-Rush economy / Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti -- "Property of every kind" : ranching and farming during the Gold-Rush era/ Lawrence James Jelinek -- The golden skein : California's Gold-Rush transportation network / A.C.W. Bethel -- A veritable revolution : the global economic significance of the California Gold Rush / Gerald D. Nash. |
| Subject: |
Gold mines and mining - History - 19th century. - California - |
| Subject: |
California - Economic conditions - 19th century. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21319An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585230072 (electronic bk.) |