The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929 (Heritage) available on March 07 2018 from Amazon for 20.00
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Used Book in Good Condition Among the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat - only to set in motion the diamond and gold rushes that transformed southern Africa. And so it went.Most previous historians of the gold rushes have tended to view them as acts of spontaneous nationalism. Each country likes to see its own gold rush as the one that either shaped those that followed or epitomized all the rest. InThe Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929, Douglas Fetherling takes a different approach.Fetherling argues that the gold rushes in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same causes and results, the same characters and characteristics. He posits that they were in fact a single discontinuous event, an expression of the British imperial experience and nineteenth-century liberalism. He does so with dash and style and with a sharp eye for the telling anecdote, the out-of-the-way document, and the bold connection between seemingly unrelated disciplines.Originally published by Macmillan of Canada, 1988.
^George Fetherling (1997). The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929, University of Toronto Press. Product. ISBN 9780802080462 (revised Apr 2012)
^George Fetherling (1997). The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929, University of Toronto Press. Wiki. ISBN 9780802080462 (revised Apr 2012)
^Douglas FetherlingThe Gold Crusades : A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929 by Douglas Fetherling (1997, Paperback, Reprint)ISBN 9780802080462 (revised Mar 2015)
^Douglas FetherlingThe Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929 (Heritage), University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. Amazon. ISBN 9780802080462 (revised Mar 2018)
