In Quest of Coolies
Author : James L. A. Hope
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Contract labor
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Author : James L. A. Hope
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Contract labor
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Author : James L. A. HOPE
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 1872
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Author : Richard Humphry Tyacke
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Hunting
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Author : Yin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2003-05-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142500550
Shek marvels at the new world as he and his brother, Little Wong, arrive in California. Along with hundreds of other workers, the brothers are going to build a great railroad across the West. They plan to save enough money so that their mother and little brothers can join them in America. But as days grow into months, they endure many hardships-exhausting work, discrimination, and treacherous avalanches. Inspired by actual events, this story reveals the harsh truth about life for the Chinese railroad workers in 1865, while celebrating their perseverance and bravery.
Author : David Patrick
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Page : 856 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 928 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Moon-Ho Jung
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080188876X
2007 Winner of the Merle Curti Intellectual History Award of the Organization of American Historians, 2006 Winner of the History/Social Science Book Award of the Association of Asian American Studies How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances an interpretation of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and the black-white racial dynamic. Tracing American ideas of Asian labor to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Moon-Ho Jung argues that the racial formation of "coolies" in American culture and law played a pivotal role in reconstructing concepts of race, nation, and citizenship in the United States. Jung examines how coolies appeared in major U.S. political debates on race, labor, and immigration between the 1830s and 1880s. He finds that racial notions of coolies were articulated in many, often contradictory, ways. They could mark the progress of freedom; they could also symbolize the barbarism of slavery. Welcomed and rejected as neither black nor white, coolies emerged recurrently as both the salvation of the fracturing and reuniting nation and the scourge of American civilization. Based on extensive archival research, this study makes sense of these contradictions to reveal how American impulses to recruit and exclude coolies enabled and justified a series of historical transitions: from slave-trade laws to racially coded immigration laws, from a slaveholding nation to a "nation of immigrants," and from a continental empire of manifest destiny to a liberating empire across the seas. Combining political, cultural, and social history, Coolies and Cane is a compelling study of race, Reconstruction, and Asian American history.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
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Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
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Page : 940 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Frederick Converse Beach
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Page : 840 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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