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Gold rush manliness : race and gender on the Pacific slope /
"The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. And yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: the same people popularly remembered as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, in association with University of Washington Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: mining gold, remaking white manhood
- Getting to gold: migration and the formation of white manliness
- A white man's republic: republican ideology and popular government in colonial California
- English principles encounter American republicanism: colonial British Columbia
- Pursuing Dame Fortune: risk and reward during the gold rushes
- Dirty clothes, clean bodies: the body and costume of white manliness
- Epilogue: endings and beginnings.