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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 Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Epigraph
  2. pp. i-viii
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. Editors’ Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xv-xviii
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  1. Timeline and Map: Selected Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes
  2. pp. xix-xxii
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  1. PART ONE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE AGE OF GOLD
  1. 1 Seeking a Global History of Gold
  2. pp. 3-41
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  1. 2 California, Coincidence, and Empire
  2. pp. 42-62
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  1. PART TWO SETTLER SOCIETIES AND GOLD RUSH DEMOCRACY
  1. 3 Gold and the Public in the Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes
  2. pp. 65-87
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  1. 4 The Pacific Gold Rushes and the Struggle for Order
  2. pp. 88-108
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  1. 5 The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, 1849–1910
  2. pp. 109-136
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  1. PART THREE FINANCE, SPECULATION, AND THE ECONOMICS OF GOLD RUSHES
  1. 6 Frenzied Finance: Gold Mining in the Globalizing South, circa 1886–1896
  2. pp. 139-162
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  1. 7 Dreams of a “Johannesburg of West Africa”: The Gold Coast’s Moment in the Imperial Rush for Gold
  2. pp. 163-183
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  1. 8 Creating a Global Industry? Geology, Capital, and Company Formation on the Goldfields of the Industrial Age
  2. pp. 184-206
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  1. PART FOUR EXPERTISE, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND MINING TECHNOLOGIES
  1. 9 The Real Wealth of the World: Hydraulic Mining and the Environment in the Circum-Pacific Goldfields
  2. pp. 209-228
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  1. 10 Engineering Gold Rushes: Engineers and the Mechanics of Global Connectivity
  2. pp. 229-251
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  1. 11 Grounding Capitalism: Geology, Labor, and the Nome Gold Rush
  2. pp. 252-272
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  1. Select Bibliography
  2. pp. 273-302
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  1. List of Contributors
  2. pp. 303-306
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 307-324
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