{"product_id":"the-gold-crusades-a-social-history-of-gold-rushes-1849-1929-paperback","title":"The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDouglas Fetherling\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat - only to set in motion the diamond and gold rushes that transformed southern Africa. And so it went.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost previous historians of the gold rushes have tended to view them as acts of spontaneous nationalism. Each country likes to see its own gold rush as the one that either shaped those that followed or epitomized all the rest. In \u003ci\u003eThe Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929\u003c\/i\u003e, Douglas Fetherling takes a different approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFetherling argues that the gold rushes in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same causes and results, the same characters and characteristics. He posits that they were in fact a single discontinuous event, an expression of the British imperial experience and nineteenth-century liberalism. He does so with dash and style and with a sharp eye for the telling anecdote, the out-of-the-way document, and the bold connection between seemingly unrelated disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published by Macmillan of Canada, 1988.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Fetherling\u003c\/b\u003e, D.Litt., is a poet, fiction writer, critic, and small-press publisher. He is the author or editor of 50 books, mostly in the fields of literature and culture. He has been the literary editor of two newspapers, the \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eKingston Whig-Standard\u003c\/em\u003e, and writer-in-residence at Queen's University. He divides his time between Ontario and British Columbia and writes a column on books and ideas for the \u003cem\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 230\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 9.04 x 6.03 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53525753069875,"sku":"9780802080462","price":71.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/kIsBhQGJSK9780802080462.webp?v=1783106071","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/the-gold-crusades-a-social-history-of-gold-rushes-1849-1929-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}