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A golden state :

A golden state : mining and economic development in gold rush California / editors James J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi ; associate editor Marlene Smith-Baranzini ; illustrations editor Anthony Kirk. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, �1999. - 1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) : illustrations (some color). - California history sesquicentennial series ; 2 . - California history sesquicentennial series ; 2. .

"Published in association with the California Historical Society."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A golden state : an introduction / James J. Rawls -- Making old tools work better : pragmatic adaptation and innovation in Gold-Rush technology / Ronald H. Limbaugh -- Capitalism comes to the diggings : from Gold-Rush adventure to corporate enterprise / Maureen A. Jung -- "We all live more like brutes than humans" : labor and capital in the Gold Rush / Daniel Cornford -- Environmental changes before and after the Gold Rush / Raymond F. Dasmann -- "I am resolved not to interfere, but permit all to work freely" : the Gold Rush and American resource law / Donald J. Pisani -- Mother lode for the West : California mining men and methods / Duane A. Smith -- Seeing the elephant / Anthony Kirk -- The Gold Rush and the beginnings of California industry / David J. St. Clair -- From hard money to branch banking : California banking in the Gold-Rush economy / Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti -- "Property of every kind" : ranching and farming during the Gold-Rush era / Lawrence James Jelinek -- The golden skein : California's Gold-Rush transportation network / A.C.W. Bethel -- A veritable revolution : the global economic significance of the California Gold Rush / Gerald D. Nash.


English.

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1800-1899


Gold mines and mining--History--California--19th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economics--Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economic History.
Economic history.
Gold mines and mining.
Business & Economics.
Economic History.


California--Economic conditions--19th century.
California.


History.
Electronic books.

HC107.C2 / G59 1999eb

330.9794/04