In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 pr
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Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alask
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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rushes written by participants *Includes bibliographies for further re
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Fetherling argues that the gold rushes in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same cause
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Among the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian
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The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of thinking about the subject of women in twentieth-century China
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Barlow documents the history of “woman” as a category in twentieth century Chinese history, tracing the question of gend
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