American alchemy :the California Gold Rush and middle-class culture
- 作者: Roberts, Brian,
- 出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©2000.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) :illustrations.
- 叢書名: Cultural studies of the United States
- 標題: Pioneers Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century. , Electronic books. , Frontier and pioneer life California. , Gold mines and mining Social aspects. , California. , Frontier and pioneer life. , Californie Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle. , Pionniers États-Unis (Nord-Est) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. , Découvertes d'orAspect social. , History. , États-Unis (Nord-Est) , Californie , West United States. , Dagelijks leven. , Northeastern States. , California , Electronic book. , Pioneers , Gold mines and mining , History , California Social conditions -- 19th century. , Frontier and pioneer life , State & LocalGeneral. , Conditions sociales , 1800-1899 , Frontier. , Middenklassen. , Middle class California -- History -- 19th century. , Northeastern States , Social aspects. , Pioneers California -- History -- 19th century. , Middle class , Middle class Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century. , HISTORY , Gold Rush. , HISTORY State & Local -- General. , California Gold discoveries -- Social aspects. , Californie Découvertes d'or -- Aspect social. , Pionniers Californie -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. , Northeastern States Social conditions -- 19th century. , Pionniers , Histoire , États-Unis (Nord-Est) Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle. , Middle class. , Gold discoveriesSocial aspects. , Pioneers. , Social conditions , Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.)
- ISBN: 080786093X , 9780807860939
- ISBN: 0807825433 , 0807848565 , 9780807825433 , 9780807848562
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. California Gold and Filthy Lucre; 2. Gold Fever as a Cure; 3. Husbands and Wives; 4. Numberless Highways to Fairy Grottos; 5. A Great and Perverse Paradise; Section of Illustrations; 6. California Is a Humbug; 7. Widows and Helpmates; 8. A Wild, Free, Disorderly, Grotesque Society; 9. The Prude Fails; 10. The End of the Flush Times; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
- 摘要: 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.
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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.
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