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Rohrbough (history, Univ. of Iowa) provides an eyewitness perspective of the Gold Rush from participants' letters and diaries. Similar to J.S. Holliday's The World Rushed In (1983), his work affords a broader base and a stronger synthesis of sources. It discusses the impact of the rush on the 49ers and those they left behind but does not cover the wider political and economic implications. Adding accounts from the many Chilean, Chinese, and Mexican participants would have made this a work of much greater significance. The bibliographic essay in the final chapter is well done. Overall, this is a well-written and intriguing account that will augment many academic and larger public library collections.?Daniel D. Liestman, Seattle Pacific Univ. Lib., Kent, Wash.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Richard White, The New Republic
"Rohrbough treats Gold Rush California as the multiethnic and multiracial society that it was. . . . At the heart of Rohrbough's wonderful book is [the] tension between a way of life that seems a modern libertarian's fantasy . . . and the commitments that the miners had made to a family and a community that they left behind."
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Rohrbough (history, Univ. of Iowa) provides an eyewitness perspective of the Gold Rush from participants' letters and diaries. Similar to J.S. Holliday's The World Rushed In (1983), his work affords a broader base and a stronger synthesis of sources. It discusses the impact of the rush on the 49ers and those they left behind but does not cover the wider political and economic implications. Adding accounts from the many Chilean, Chinese, and Mexican participants would have made this a work of much greater significance. The bibliographic essay in the final chapter is well done. Overall, this is a well-written and intriguing account that will augment many academic and larger public library collections.?Daniel D. Liestman, Seattle Pacific Univ. Lib., Kent, Wash.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Richard White, The New Republic
"Rohrbough treats Gold Rush California as the multiethnic and multiracial society that it was. . . . At the heart of Rohrbough's wonderful book is [the] tension between a way of life that seems a modern libertarian's fantasy . . . and the commitments that the miners had made to a family and a community that they left behind."
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