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Gold Rush Manliness - Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope (Paperback)
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Gold Rush Manliness - Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope (Paperback)
Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
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The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining
camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners,
gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to
the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men
who valued morality and order. Examining the closely linked gold
rushes in California and British Columbia, historian Christopher
Herbert shows that these men worried about the meaning of their
manhood in the near-anarchic, ethnically mixed societies that grew
up around the mines. As white gold rushers emigrated west, they
encountered a wide range of people they considered inferior and
potentially dangerous to white dominance, including Latin American,
Chinese, and Indigenous peoples. The way that white miners
interacted with these groups reflected their conceptions of race
and morality, as well as the distinct political principles and
strategies of the US and British colonial governments. The white
miners were accustomed to white male domination, and their anxiety
to continue it played a central role in the construction of
colonial regimes. In addition to renovating traditional
understandings of the Pacific Slope gold rushes, Herbert argues
that historians' understanding of white manliness has been too
fixated on the eastern United States and Britain. In the nineteenth
century, popular attention largely focused on the West. It was in
the gold fields and the cities they spawned that new ideas of white
manliness emerged, prefiguring transformations elsewhere.
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