Download or read book Chinese in the Mother Lode 1850 1870 written by Pauline Minke and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese in the Mother Lode 1850 1870 written by Pauline Minke and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese San Francisco 1850 1943 written by Yong Chen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco.
Download or read book American Environmental History written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty-first century concerns over our global ecological crisis, American Environmental History addresses contentious issues such as the preservation of the wilderness, the expulsion of native peoples from national parks, and population growth, and considers the formative forces of gender, race, and class. Entries address a range of topics, from the impact of rice cultivation, slavery, and the growth of the automobile suburb to the effects of the Russian sea otter trade, Columbia River salmon fisheries, the environmental justice movement, and globalization. This illustrated reference is an essential companion for students interested in the ongoing transformation of the American landscape and the conflicts over its resources and conservation. It makes rich use of the tools and resources (climatic and geological data, court records, archaeological digs, and the writings of naturalists) that environmental historians rely on to conduct their research. The volume also includes a compendium of significant people, concepts, events, agencies, and legislation, and an extensive bibliography of critical films, books, and Web sites.
Download or read book Gold Mountain Turned to Dust written by John R. Wunder and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the authorâ (TM)s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the Westâ "from California to Montana to New Mexicoâ "serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West.
Download or read book The Poker Bride written by Christopher Corbett and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story of a concubine and the Gold Rush years “delves deep into the soul of the real old west” (Erik Larson). “Once the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill launched our ‘national madness,’ the population of California exploded. Tens of thousands of Chinese, lured by tales of a ‘golden mountain,’ took passage across the Pacific. Among this massive influx were many young concubines who were expected to serve in the brothels sprouting up near the goldfields. One of them adopted the name of Polly Bemis, after an Idaho saloonkeeper, Charlie Bemis, won her in a poker game and married her. For decades the couple lived on an isolated, self-sufficient farm near the Salmon River in central Idaho. After her husband’s death, Polly came down to a nearby town and gradually spoke of her experiences. Journalist Christopher Corbett movingly recounts Polly’s story, integrating Polly’s personal history into the broader picture of the history of the mass immigration of Chinese. As both a personal and social history, this is an admirable book.” —Booklist “A gorgeously written and brilliantly researched saga of America during the mad flush of its biggest Gold Rush. Christopher Corbett’s genius is to anchor his larger story of Chinese immigration around a poor concubine named Polly. A tremendous achievement.” —Douglas Brinkley “Uses Bemis’s story as a platform for a larger discussion about the hardships of the Chinese experience in the American West.” —The Washington Post
Download or read book In Pursuit of Gold written by Sue Fawn Chung and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a history of an overlooked community and a well-rounded reassessment of prevailing assumptions about Chinese miners in the American West, In Pursuit of Gold brings to life in rich detail the world of turn-of-the-century mining towns in the Northwest. Sue Fawn Chung meticulously recreates the lives of Chinese immigrants, miners, merchants, and others who populated these towns and interacted amicably with their white and Native American neighbors, defying the common perception of nineteenth-century Chinese communities as insular enclaves subject to increasing prejudice and violence. While most research has focused on Chinese miners in California, this book is the first extensive study of Chinese experiences in the towns of John Day in Oregon and Tuscarora, Island Mountain, and Gold Creek in Nevada. Chung illustrates the relationships between miners and merchants within the communities and in the larger context of immigration, arguing that the leaders of the Chinese and non-Chinese communities worked together to create economic interdependence and to short-circuit many of the hostilities and tensions that plagued other mining towns. Peppered with fascinating details about these communities from the intricacies of Chinese gambling games to the techniques of hydraulic mining, In Pursuit of Gold draws on a wealth of historical materials, including immigration records, census manuscripts, legal documents, newspapers, memoirs, and manuscript collections. Chung supplements this historical research with invaluable first-hand observations of artifacts that she experienced in archaeological digs and restoration efforts at several of the sites of the former booming mining towns. In clear, analytical prose, Chung expertly characterizes the movement of Chinese miners into Oregon and Nevada, the heyday of their mining efforts in the region, and the decline of the communities due to changes in the mining industry. Highlighting the positive experiences and friendships many of the immigrants had in these relatively isolated mining communities, In Pursuit of Gold also suggests comparisons with the Chinese diaspora in other locations such as British Columbia and South Africa.
Download or read book Bitter strength a history of the Chinese in the United States 1850 1870 written by Gunther Paul Barth and published by . This book was released on with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chinese in America written by Iris Chang and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2003 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chang has written an extraordinary narrative that encompasses the entire history of the Chinese in America, an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day. Photos.
Download or read book The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merchant provides a context-setting overview of American environmental history from the beginning of the millennium; an encyclopedia of important concepts, people, agencies, and laws; a chronology of major events; and an extensive bibliography including films, videos, CD-ROMs, and websites.
Download or read book Chinatown Gangs written by Ko-lin Chin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in data collected from gang members, gang victims, community leaders, and law enforcement authorities, this book offers a systematic study of New York City's Chinatown gangs. "Chin's ethnographic study should be on the shelf of anyone interested in the comparative study of gangs and the role of gangs in American society."--Jerome H. Skolnick, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Download or read book In Defense of Asian American Studies written by Sucheng Chan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Defense of Asian American Studies offers fascinating tales from the trenches on the origins and evolution of the field of Asian American studies, as told by one of its founders and most highly regarded scholars. Wielding intellectual energy, critical acumen, and a sly sense of humor, Sucheng Chan discusses her experiences on three campuses within the University of California system as Asian American studies was first developed--in response to vehement student demand--under the rubric of ethnic studies. Chan speaks by turns as an advocate and an administrator striving to secure a place for Asian American studies; as a teacher working to give Asian American students a voice and white students a perspective on race and racism; and as a scholar and researcher still asking her own questions. The essays span three decades and close with a piece on the new challenges facing Asian American studies. Eloquently documenting a field of endeavor in which scholarship and identity define and strengthen each other, In Defense of Asian American Studies combines analysis, personal experience, and indispensable practical advice for those engaged in building and sustaining Asian American studies programs.
Download or read book Bitter Strength written by Gunther Paul Barth and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese on the American Frontier written by Arif Dirlik and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles dealing with the Chinese presence in the late 19th century American West, when anti-Chinese sentiment was at its peak. Major themes include racial hostility and violence, Chinese resistance to discrimination, life in Chinatowns (e.g., Chinese festivities and food, the absence of women, gambling, opium use, and prostitution), labor issues, and public attitudes.
Download or read book History and Humanities written by Francis X. Hartigan and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the career of noted historian Wilbur S. Shepperson in which such topics as medical history, minority history, atomic testing and weapons, gambling, humanism, and the ideal of the university in history are covered, reflecting the broad range of Shepperson's interests.
Download or read book Samfow written by Sylvia Sun Minnick and published by Panorama West Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Misreading the Chinese Character written by Dave Williams and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the wide differences in manifest content, all the portrayals of the Chinese sprang from the Euroamerican need to maintain a race-based separation from the Chinese."--BOOK JACKET.
