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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Roberts, Brian, 1957- American alchemy. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606378626 Online version: Roberts, Brian, 1957- American alchemy. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000 (OCoLC)609152528 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Brian Roberts |
| ISBN: | 0807825433 9780807825433 0807848565 9780807848562 |
| OCLC Number: | 42462941 |
| Description: | xii, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | California gold and filthy lucre -- Gold fever as a cure -- Husbands and wives -- Numberless highways to fairy grottos -- A great perverse paradise -- California is a humbug -- Widows and helpmates -- A wild, free, disorderly, grotesque society -- The prude fails -- The end of the flush times. |
| Series Title: | Cultural studies of the United States. |
| Responsibility: | Brian Roberts. |
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