The Age of Gold - Folio Society edition

The Age of Gold

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The Age of Gold - Folio Society edition
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The Age of Gold

H. W.Brands

Edition year 2015
Binding Cloth
Weight 1.5 Kg
Pages 584
Dimensions 24.5 × 16.9 cm

Edition details

The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by H. W. Brands. Introduced by Kevin Starr. Bound in black cloth title embossed in gilt on cover and spine. Frontispiece and 24 pages of colour and black & white plates. Map endpapers printed gold on black. Gold page tops. Black slipcase. 584pp. 24.5x16.9cm

About the book

H. W. Brands's The Age of Gold tells the story of the California Gold Rush and the people drawn west by the promise of sudden wealth. Following the discovery of gold in 1848, journeys by sea and across the continent brought prospectors into a region changing with extraordinary speed. Mining camps, new businesses and fierce competition became part of a wider transformation of the United States. Brands connects individual hopes and risks with expansion, migration and the emerging idea of opportunity that gave the Gold Rush a lasting place in the American imagination.

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