We The Miners: Self-Government In California Gold Rush Andrea G Mcdowell Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Health Family & Life Style

A Financial Times Best History Book Of The Yeara Surprising Account Frontier Law That Challenges Image Wild West In Absence State Authority Gold Rush Miners Crafted Effective Government By People—But Not For All People California Was On Steroids: 1 500 Miles From Nearest It Had Constantly Fluctuating Population And No Formal Hundred Thousand Single Men Came To New Territory Every Corner Nation With Sole Aim Striking Rich Then Returning Home Circumstances Were Ripe Chaos But As Andrea Mcdowell Shows This Nearly One Would Presume Turned Out Be Experts At Self-Government Bringing About Flowering American-Style Democracy—With Its Promises Deficiencies Americans Organized Ran Meetings An Efficiency Attention Detail Amazed Foreign Observers Hundreds Strangers Met Adopt Mining Codes Decide Claim Disputes Run Large-Scale Projects Resist Dominance Companies Financed Outside Capital Most Notably They Held Criminal Trials Their Own Mirroring Societies Back East Which Frontiersmen Drew Boundaries Legal Regime Racial Terms Ruling Majority Expelled Diggings Allowed Countrymen Massacre Local Native Consolidated Refused Surrender Self-Endowed Make Rules Execute Criminals Presaging Don’t-Tread-On-Me Attitudes Much Contemporary American We Offers Well-Documented Test Case Democratic Illustrating How Used Parliamentary Procedure Take Place Σελίδες: 336 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0628 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm