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American alchemy : the California Gold Rush and middle-class culture

Author: Brian Roberts
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000.
Series: Cultural studies of the United States.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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
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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