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The Mining Frontiers of California and Australia: A Study in Comparative Political Change and Continuity

Jerome O. Steffen
- 01 Nov 1983 - 
- Vol. 52, Iss: 4, pp 428-440
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This article is published in Pacific Historical Review.The article was published on 1983-11-01. It has received 10 citations till now.

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Culture and Fairness in the Development of Institutions in the California Gold Fields

TL;DR: The authors argue that culture matters in solving collective-action problems in the California gold fields and that cultural concepts of fairness served to create norms and institutions that miners were willing to defend, which included majority rule, election of officials, trial by jury, allocation of a first-come, first-served basis and rules for working claims.
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Culture and fairness in the development of institutions in the california gold fields

TL;DR: The authors argue that culture matters in solving collective action problems in the California gold fields and argue that cultural concepts of fairness served to create norms and institutions that miners were willing to defend, which included majority rule, election of officials, trial by jury, allocation of a first-come, first-served basis and rules for working claims.
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The gold commodity frontier: A fresh perspective on change and diversity in the global gold mining economy

TL;DR: The authors argue that gold mining, in an attempt to overcome several socio-ecological and socio-political limitations, has expanded outside its historical core into a range of new mining destinations (widening), and has come to rely on an intensification of production through socio-technical innovations (deepening).
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.

TL;DR: The Contagion of Liberty 1. Slavery 2. Establishment of Religion 3. Power and Liberty: A Theory of Politics IV. The Logic of Rebellion A Note on Conspiracy V. Sovereignty VI. Fulfillment.
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

TL;DR: The Contagion of Liberty 1. Slavery 2. Establishment of Religion 3. Power and Liberty: A Theory of Politics IV. The Logic of Rebellion A Note on Conspiracy V. Sovereignty VI. Fulfillment as discussed by the authors.
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

TL;DR: The authors describes the evolution of political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution, and in the process greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system.
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