The Chinese and the iron road : building the transcontinental railroad /

This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Central Pacific Railroad--but who have been little understood and largely invisible in traditional accounts of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chang, Gordon H. (Editor ), Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (Editor ), Obenzinger, Hilton (Contribuidor), Hsu, Roland, 1961- (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
Colección:Asian America.
Temas:
Central Pacific Railroad Company > Employees > History.
Central Pacific Railroad Company.
1800-1899
Railroad construction workers > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Foreign workers, Chinese > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Chinese > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Chinese.
Emigration and immigration.
Employees.
Foreign workers, Chinese.
Railroad construction workers.
China > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
China.
West United States.
History.
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