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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush

By (author) Susan Lee Johnson

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The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting the surprising ways in which the conventions of identity—ethnic, national, and sexual—were reshaped. With a keen eye for character and story, she shows us how this peculiar world evolved over time, and how our cultural memory of the Gold Rush took root.

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 14 days
Publisher | WW Norton & Co
Published date | 17 Dec 2000
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 466
Dimensions | 208 x 140 x 36mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 471g
ISBN | 978-0-3933-2099-2
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BISAC | history / united states / 19th century

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