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This Bittersweet Soil
Author: Sucheng Chan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780520067370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The role of the Chinese in California agriculture during the later decades of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century was an integral aspect of the agricultural history of the western United States. Although the number of Chinese involved in agricultural occupations at one time never exceeded 6000 to 7000 workers, their lack of numbers does not diminish their impact. Author Chan, of Chinese origin, has made extensive use of census records and county archival sources to produce the first full history of the Chinese in California agriculture.
Northwest Anthropological Research Notes
Author: Roderick Sprague
Publisher: Northwest Anthropology
Published:
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An Annotated Bibliography of Overseas Chinese History and Archaeology - Dixie E. Ehrenreich, Priscilla Wegars, Jonathan Horn, and Karen E. Smith Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 37th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, 21-23 March 1984, Spokane, Washington Terrestrial Oriented Sites in a Marine Environment Along the Southern Oregon Coast - Richard E. Ross A Check List of Columbia Basin Project Papers - Roderick Sprague
Working People of California
Author: Daniel Cornford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0520332776
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the California Indians who labored in the Spanish missions to the immigrant workers on Silicon Valley's high-tech assembly lines, California's work force has had a complex and turbulent past, marked by some of the sharpest and most significant battles fought by America's working people. This anthology presents the work of scholars who are forging a new brand of social history—one that reflects the diversity of California's labor force by paying close attention to the multicultural and gendered aspects of the past. Readers will discover a refreshing chronological breadth to this volume, as well as a balanced examination of both rural and urban communities. Daniel Cornford's excellent general introduction provides essential historical background while his brief introductions to each chapter situate the essays in their larger contexts. A list of further readings appears at the end of each chapter. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
Immigrants on the Land
Author: George E. Pozzetta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780824074043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Gold Mountain Turned to Dust
Author: John R. Wunder
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0826359396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in gold mining, railroad construction, the founding of small businesses, and land reclamation, the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrimination and widespread violence. This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the author’s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the West—from California to Montana to New Mexico—serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West. The first two essays deal with anti-Chinese racial violence and judicial discrimination. The remainder of the book examines legal precedents and judicial doctrines derived from Chinese cases in specific western states. The Chinese, Wunder shows, used the American legal system to protect their rights and test a variety of legal doctrines, making vital contributions to the legal history of the American West.
Sierra Stories
Author: Gary Noy
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1597142832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author of Gold Rush Stories shares tales of the larger-than-life characters from the history of the legendary Sierra Nevada mountain range. With its 14,000-foot granite mountains, crystalline lakes, conifer forests, and hidden valleys, the Sierra Nevada has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Stories abound, and characters emerge so outlandish and outrageous that they must be real. Could the human imagination have invented someone like Eliza Gilbert? Born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1818, she transformed herself into Lola Montez, born in Seville, Spain, in 1823, and brought to the Gold Country the provocative “Spider Dance”—impersonating a young woman repelling a legion of angry spiders under her petticoats. Or Otto Esche, who in 1860 imported fifteen two-humped Bactrian camels from Asia to transport goods to the mines. Or the artist Albert Bierstadt, whose paintings Mark Twain characterized as having “more the atmosphere of Kingdom-Come than of California.” Or multimillionaire George Whittell Jr., who was frequently spotted driving around Lake Tahoe in a luxurious convertible with his pet lion in the front seat. These, and scores more, spill out of the pages of this well-illustrated and lively tribute to the Sierra by a native son.
Chinese Immigrants and American Law
Author: Charles McClain
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780815318491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Driven Out
Author: Jean Pfaelzer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-08
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780520256941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This sweeping and groundbreaking work presents the shocking and violent history of ethnic cleansing against Chinese Americans from the Gold Rush era to the turn of the century.
Law in the West
Author: Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780815334613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
