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. .
<br/><br/> "Published in association with the California Historical Society." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520922532 0520922530 0585230072 9780585230078 9780520217706 0520217705 9780520217713 0520217713 9780585230072 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1800-1899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Gold mines and mining--History--California--19th century.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Economic Conditions.<br/>BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economics--Comparative.<br/>BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economic Conditions.<br/>BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economic History.<br/>Economic history.<br/>Gold mines and mining.<br/>Business & Economics.<br/>Economic History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>California--Economic conditions--19th century.<br/>California.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC107.C2  / G59 1999eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.9794/04