Rooted in Barbarous Soil - People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California

The third in a four-volume series commemorating California's sesquicentennial, this volume brings together the best of the new scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Gold Rush, written in an accessible style and generously illustrated with with black and white and color photographs.

About the author

Kevin Starr is California State Librarian and University Professor at the University of Southern California. He is the author of the acclaimed multi-volume series Americans and the California Dream (1973-1998). Richard J. Orsi is Professor of History at California State University, Hayward, and editor of California History. He is the coeditor of Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush (California, 1998) and A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California (California, 1999).

Summary

Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did 'civilization' appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. This title examines gold rush society and culture, to present interpretations, and to gather bibliographies of its topics.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Starr, Kevin Orsi Starr
• Assisted by: Anthony Kirk-Greene (Editor), Richard J. Orsi (Editor), Orsi Richard J. (Editor), Kevin Starr (Editor), Starr Kevin (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2000
• EAN: 9780520224964
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22496-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: California History Sesquicente; California History Sesquicentennial Series; California History Sesquicentennial Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, California, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas