Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering
did "civilization" appear to sink so low as in gold-rush
California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back
again, rendering everyone's fortunes ephemeral. A volatile
assemblage of transients were fixated on "making their pile" and
returning home. Rooted in Barbarous Soil, Volume 3 in the
four-volume California History Sesquicentennial Series, is the only
book of its kind to examine gold-rush society and culture, to
present modern interpretations, and to gather up-to-date
bibliographies of its topics.
Chapters by leading scholars in their respective fields explore
a range of topics including migration and settlement; ethnic
diversity, assimilation, cooperation, and conflict; the
dispossession of Indians and the Californios; the founding of
schools and universities; urban life; women in early California;
the sexual frontier; and the development of religion, art,
literature, and popular culture.
General themes lend unity to the chapters: reinterpreting
gold-rush society and culture for modern Californians; the
interplay of traditional cultures and frontier innovation; the
impact of the California experience on the nation and the wider
world; and the importance and continuing legacy of ethnic and
cultural diversity. Together with the other three volumes in the
series, Rooted in Barbarous Soil will stand as a monument not only
to scholarship on the Gold Rush, but also to central themes in
American historical scholarship at the end of the century.
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