A History of Gold as a Commodity and as a Measure of Value
Author | : James Ward |
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Author | : James Ward |
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Author | : James Arthur Ward |
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Author | : James Ward |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2018-09-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781396393440 |
Excerpt from A History of Gold as a Commodity and as a Measure of Value: Its Fluctuations Both in Ancient and Modern Times, With an Estimate of the Probable Supplies From California and Australia The recent discovery of gold In two distinct quarters of the globe, and in more than ordinary abundance in each, is just such an incident as we allude to, and is having precisely the effect as might be predicated of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : James Ward (Miscellaneous Writer.) |
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Total Pages | : 142 |
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Author | : James Ward (Author of The world in its workshops) |
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Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Gold |
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Author | : Samuel Dana Horton |
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Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Bimetallism |
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Author | : Samuel Dana HORTON |
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Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1876 |
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Total Pages | : 1632 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Arts |
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Author | : David Goodman |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804724807 |
"The brave independence of the 'roaring days', the camaraderie of the gold fields, jolly diggers on a spree - these are the images that have come down to us of the gold era of the 1850s in Australia and California. But these images were largely shaped decades later, by writers such as Henry Lawson and Bret Harte - they speak of later nostalgia rather than the experience of the time." "In this study of the contemporary response to the discoveries of gold in Victoria and California, David Goodman argues that people at the time were apprehensive about gold rushing, and the kind of society it seemed to prefigure. In the chaos of the gold rushes, individual self-interest seemed to be all that could motivate people to any exertion. And it was only the economic rationalists of the day - those who believed in political economy and its promise, that out of the confusion of individual self-interest would come some sort of social order - who could wholeheartedly endorse the gold rushes as events." "This is a history of the ways people talked about gold. As the first full-length cultural history of the gold rushes on two continents, it examines the meanings of gold at the time, and the narratives which were told about social disruption. It locates the deeper underlying themes in the response to gold. It also looks at the ways in which the dominant later memories of gold were shaped. And it is about national differences, about the construction of distinctive national cultures out of materials common to the British world. This book should be read not only by Australian and American historians but by anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Ronald H. Limbaugh |
Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2003-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 087417578X |
California’s Calaveras County—made famous by Mark Twain and his celebrated Jumping Frog—is the focus of this comprehensive study of Mother Lode mining. Most histories of the California Mother Lode have focused on the mines around the American and Yuba Rivers. However, the “Southern Mines”—those centered around Calaveras County in the central Sierra—were also important in the development of California’s mineral wealth. Calaveras Gold offers a detailed and meticulously researched history of mining and its economic impact in this region from the first discoveries in the 1840s until the present. Mining in Calaveras County covered the full spectrum of technology from the earliest placer efforts through drift and hydraulic mining to advanced hard-rock industrial mining. Subsidiary industries such as agriculture, transportation, lumbering, and water supply, as well as a complex social and political structure, developed around the mines. The authors examine the roles of race, gender, and class in this frontier society; the generation and distribution of capital; and the impact of the mines on the development of political and cultural institutions. They also look at the impact of mining on the Native American population, the realities of day-to-day life in the mining camps, the development of agriculture and commerce, the occurrence of crime and violence, and the cosmopolitan nature of the population. Calaveras County mining continued well into the twentieth century, and the authors examine the ways that mining practices changed as the ores were depleted and how the communities evolved from mining camps into permanent towns with new economic foundations and directions. Mining is no longer the basis of Calaveras’s economy, but memories of the great days of the Mother Lode still attract tourists who bring a new form of wealth to the region.