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<P>Among the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat&nbsp;– only to set in motion the diamond and gold rushes that transformed southern Africa. And so it went.</P> <P>Most previous historians of the gold rushes have tended to view them as acts of spontaneous nationalism. Each country likes to see its own gold rush as the one that either shaped those that followed or epitomized all the rest. In <I>The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929</I>, Douglas Fetherling takes a different approach.</P> <P>Fetherling argues that the gold rushes in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same causes and results, the same characters and characteristics. He posits that they were in fact a single discontinuous event, an expression of the British imperial experience and nineteenth-century libera

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Author

Fetherling, Douglas

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802080462

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, History, Economics