Название: The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
Автор: H. W. Brands
Издательство: Anchor
ISBN: 0385502168
Год: 2002
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 547
Размер: 4,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America’s imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War.