Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
ISBN-13:
9780393320992
ISBN-10:
0393320995
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Susan Lee Johnson Ph.D.
Publication date:
2000
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
466 pages
Category:
State & Local
,
United States History
,
Americas History
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ISBN-13:
9780393320992
ISBN-10:
0393320995
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Susan Lee Johnson Ph.D.
Publication date:
2000
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
466 pages
Category:
State & Local
,
United States History
,
Americas History
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (ISBN-13: 9780393320992 and ISBN-10: 0393320995), written by authors
Susan Lee Johnson Ph.D., was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2000.
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Winner of the 2001 Bancroft Prize.
Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film―of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold―is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity―ethnic, national, and sexual―were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish. Maps, illustrations.We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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