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List of contents
Preface, Michael McCone and Richard J. Orsi 1. A Golden State: An Introduction, James J. Rawls 2. Making Old Tools Work Better: Pragmatic Adaptation and Innovation in Gold-Rush Technology, Ronald H. Limbaugh 3. Capitalism comes to the Diggings: From Goold-Rush Adventure to Corporate Enterprise, Maureen A. Jung 4. "We all live more like brutes than humans": abor and Capital in the Gold Rush, Daniel Cornford 5. Environmental Changes before and after the Gold Rush, Raymond F. Dasmann 6. "I am resolved not to interfere, but permit all to work freely": The Gold Rush and American Resource Law, Donald J. Pisani 7. Mother Lode for the West: California Mining Men and Methods, Duane A. Smith 8. Seeing the Elephant, Anthony Kirk 9. The Gold rush and the Beginnings of California Technology, David J. St. Clair 10. From hard Money to branch Banking: California Banking in teh Gold-Rush Economy, Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti 11. "Prosperity of Everty Kind": Ranching and Farming during the Gold-Rush Era, Lawrence James Jelinek 12. The Golden Skein: California's Gold-Rush Transporation Network, A. C. W. Bethel 13. A Vertiable revolution: The Global Economic Significance of the California Gold rush, gerald D. Nash
About the author
James J. Rawls is an instructor of history at Diablo Valley College and author of numerous books on California history. Richard J. Orsi is Professor of History at California State University, Hayward, and editor of the journal California History, the journal of the California Historical Society.
