A Global History of Gold Rushes, Mountford Benjamin, Tuffnell Stephen

Автор: Mountford Benjamin, Tuffnell Stephen
Название: A Global History of Gold Rushes
ISBN: 0520294556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520294554
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the nostalgic rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated global circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes in global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of global capitalism; it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed global migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.