How Long to Read Gold Rush Manliness

How Long Does it Take to Read Gold Rush Manliness?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Gold Rush Manliness by Christopher Herbert

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. Examining the closely linked gold rushes in California and British Columbia, historian Christopher Herbert shows that these men worried about the meaning of their manhood in the near-anarchic, ethnically mixed societies that grew up around the mines. As white gold rushers emigrated west, they encountered a wide range of people they considered inferior and potentially dangerous to white dominance, including Latin American, Chinese, and Indigenous peoples. The way that white miners interacted with these groups reflected their conceptions of race and morality, as well as the distinct political principles and strategies of the US and British colonial governments. The white miners were accustomed to white male domination, and their anxiety to continue it played a central role in the construction of colonial regimes. In addition to renovating traditional understandings of the Pacific Slope gold rushes, Herbert argues that historians� understanding of white manliness has been too fixated on the eastern United States and Britain. In the nineteenth century, popular attention largely focused on the West. It was in the gold fields and the cities they spawned that new ideas of white manliness emerged, prefiguring transformations elsewhere.

How long is Gold Rush Manliness?

Gold Rush Manliness by Christopher Herbert is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gold Rush Manliness Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Gold Rush Manliness aloud.

What Reading Level is Gold Rush Manliness?

Gold Rush Manliness is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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