The California Gold Rush
A Brief History with Documents
Published on 3. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-4576-7164-7 (ISBN)
Description
California Gold Rush digs deep into multiple angles of this episode in our countrys history, examining the social and enviornmental consequences in order to present to you a clearer picture of what impact the Gold Rush made.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Macmillan Learning
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
167 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4576-7164-7 (9781457671647)
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Andrew C. Isenberg received his B.A. from St. Olaf College and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He teaches the history of the American West, borderlands history, and environmental history as Professor of History at Temple University. He is the author of Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life; Mining California: An Ecological History; and The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920. He has also edited two volumes of collected essays: The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History and The Nature of Cities: Culture Landscape, and Urban Space.