The Nature of Gold

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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).

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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-

Résumé
Looks at political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America's transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural labourers across the country.

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Foreword by William Cronon

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On the Chilkoot

1/The Culture of Gold

2/The Nature of the Journey

3/The Culture of the Journey

4/The Nature of Gold Mining

5/The Culture of Gold Mining

6/The Nature & Culture of Food

7/The Nature & Culture of Seattle

Conclusion: Nature, Culture, and Value

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index