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Garden of the world : Asian immigrants and the making of agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley /
Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil. Virtually all farms were owned by whites, but the soil was largely worked by Asian immigrants. In this book, Cecilia...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Independent of the unskilled chinaman : race, labor, and family farming
- Transplanted : the world of early Issei farmers
- Pioneering men and women : Japanese gender relations in rural California
- Defending the American farm home : Japanese farm families and the anti-Japanese movement
- From menace to model : reshaping the oriental problem
- Reds, communists, and fruit strikers : Filipinos and the Great Depression.