American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture by Brian Roberts

American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture

Cultural Studies of the United States

Brian Roberts

360 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous emotional medium-paced
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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 ...

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