The Nature of Gold - Morse, Kathryn
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NEW IN PAPER-In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times. "A tour de force of modern scholarship."--Pacific Northwest Quarterly-…mehr

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NEW IN PAPER-In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times. "A tour de force of modern scholarship."--Pacific Northwest Quarterly-
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Kathryn Morse is professor of history and John C. Elder Professor in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College. Her first book was The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (University of Washington Press, 2003), and she is currently working on an illustrated environmental history of the United States. She is also the author of The Nature of War: An Environmental History of Mount Independence (Orwell, VT: The Mount Independence Coalition, 2006).