Roaring Camp Susan Lee Johnson (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Winner of the Bancroft Prize

Roaring Camp Zusammenfassung

Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush Susan Lee Johnson (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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.

Roaring Camp Bewertungen

Johnson puts forward a perspective on the Gold Rush far different from many stories and legends of yore...A provocative, eye-opening book. -- Sacremento Bee
Roaring Camp deepens our understanding of continental conquest. Beautifully researched, vividly written, and compassionately argued, it also reveals the Gold Rush as a fascinating theater of human behavior. -- Times Literary Supplement
Meticulously researched, precise, and lively...Roaring Camp offers a compelling portrait of the ways in which the experience of life in the diggings profoundly affected and altered American ideas about manhood and society. -- The American Scholar
A must-read...Briskly, vividly written, acute in observation and use of anecdote. -- Choice
An exemplary work of imaginative, innovative, and sensitive historical scholarship...Beautifully, even lyrically written, it opens many new insights in western U.S. history. -- David G. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego

Über Susan Lee Johnson (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Susan Lee Johnson is Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR005306088

ISBN 13

9780393320992

ISBN 10

0393320995

Titel

Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush Susan Lee Johnson (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Autor

Susan Lee Johnson (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Broschiert

Verlag

WW Norton & Co

Datum

20010314

Anzahl der Seiten

466

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Winner of Bancroft Prize 2001

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