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American Alchemy : The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Cult
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- University of North Carolina Press
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807848565
ISBN-13
9780807848562
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1628940
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Alchemy : the California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / 19th Century, Sociology / General
Publication Year
2000
Features
New Edition
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Book Series
Cultural Studies of the United States Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
17.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-048082
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
A welcome addition to work on the California gold rush and on nineteenth-century white, middle-class culture.Journal of American History, An important book, convincingly relocating the opening cultural crisis of the American middle class.Harvard Business History Review, An important book, convincingly relocating the opening cultural crisis of the American middle class. Harvard Business History Review, [This book] achieves a "gold standard" by making something as familiar as the Gold Rush uncomfortably new.American Historical Review, A welcome addition to work on the California gold rush and on nineteenth-century white, middle-class culture. Journal of American History, [This book] achieves a "gold standard" by making something as familiar as the Gold Rush uncomfortably new. American Historical Review
Dewey Decimal
979.4/04
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. California Gold and Filthy Lucre Chapter 2. Gold Fever as a Cure Chapter 3. Husbands and Wives Chapter 4. Numberless Highways to Fairy Grottos Chapter 5. A Great and Perverse Paradise Chapter 6. California Is a Humbug Chapter 7. Widows and Helpmates Chapter 8. A Wild, Free, Disorderly, Grotesque Society Chapter 9. The Prude Fails Chapter 10. The End of the Flush Times Conclusion Notes Index A section of illustrations follows.
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. InAmerican Alchemy, however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption.Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the "unseen" forty-niners—women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West—he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture.Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage—a rebellion against standards of respectability., California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy , however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption.Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the "unseen" forty-niners--women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West--he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture.Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage--a rebellion against standards of respectability., California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy , however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption.Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the "unseen" forty-niners -- women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West -- he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture.Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage -- a rebellion against standards of respectability., California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy , however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption. Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the ?unseen? forty-niners ? women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West ? he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture. Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage ? a rebellion against standards of respectability., California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by a rough and rebellious figure; a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. This work challenges this stereotypical portrait.
LC Classification Number
99-048082 [F]
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