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Paperback. Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II Series: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1K; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the "coolie" trade and ending during World War II. The Chinese came as laborers, streaming across borders legally and illegally and working jobs few others wanted, from constructing railroads in California to harvesting sugar cane in Cuba. Though nations were built in part from their labor, Young argues that they were the first group of migrants to bear the stigma of being "alien." Being neither black nor white and existing outside of the nineteenth century Western ... Read more
In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the "coolie" trade and ending during World War II. The Chinese came as laborers, streaming across borders legally and illegally and working jobs few others wanted, from constructing railroads in California to harvesting sugar cane in Cuba. Though nations were built in part from their labor, Young argues that they were the first group of migrants to bear the stigma of being "alien." Being neither black nor white and existing outside of the nineteenth century Western ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Series
The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469612966
SKU
V9781469612966
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About Elliott Young
Elliott Young is associate professor of history at Lewis and Clark College.
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