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SUMMARY:'Pacific Pacification: Vigilante Violence and Social Control in Go
 ld Rush San Francisco' - Ewan Lusty\, Trinity Hall 
DTSTART:20141029T170000Z
DTEND:20141029T190000Z
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CONTACT:Kate Bruce-Lockhart
DESCRIPTION:Studies of the Pacific gold rushes of the nineteenth century h
 ave generally approached them through the framework of nation-based histor
 y.  This paper will use the case study of vigilante violence in San Franci
 sco in 1851 to challenge this spatially confined view\, revealing the impo
 rtance of the California Gold Rush as a global event.  It will focus on vi
 gilante violence as a method of imposing Anglo-American\, middle class soc
 ial control on an unruly\, unstable\, and crucially\, cosmopolitan populat
 ion.  It will shed light on the justifications of violence to highlight ho
 w it was just one element of a comprehensive strategy for establishing a p
 articular Anglo vision of American society in an environment that had thro
 wn many Anglo-American certainties into doubt.  \n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Wolfson Room South\, Trinity 
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