Description
The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode.
Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting the surprising ways in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped. With a keen eye for character and story, she shows us how this peculiar world evolved over time, and how our cultural memory of the Gold Rush took root.
Author: Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 12/17/2000
Pages: 466
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.48w x 1.16d
ISBN13: 9780393320992
ISBN10: 0393320995
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 19th Century
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- History | Social History