Brian Roberts 
American Alchemy [EPUB ebook] 
The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture

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California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In
American Alchemy, however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption.
Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the ‘unseen’ forty-niners–women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West–he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture.
Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage–a rebellion against standards of respectability.

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Brian Roberts is assistant professor of history at California State University in Sacramento.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 360 ● ISBN 9780807860939 ● Dimensione 3.9 MB ● Casa editrice The University of North Carolina Press ● Città Chapel Hill ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2003 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 5512946 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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