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A Global History of Gold Rushes (Hardcover)
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A Global History of Gold Rushes (Hardcover)
Series: California World History Library, 25
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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.
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