Global History of Gold Rushes (California World History Library) (Volume 25)

ISBN 10: 0520294548 / ISBN 13: 9780520294547

Published by University of California Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Global History of Gold Rushes (California World History Library) (Volume 25)
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520294548
• ISBN 13: 9780520294547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Benjamin Mountford, Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, is the author of Britain, China, and Colonial Australia and coeditor of Fighting Words: Fifteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World. He was formerly a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe University (2017-18). 
 
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. He researches US history from a global perspective.