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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chinese railroad workers and the US transcontinental railroad in global perspective / Gordon H. Chang
  • Chinese labor migrants to the Americas in the nineteenth century : an inquiry into who they were and the world they left behind / Evelyn Hu-DeHart
  • The view from home : dreams of Chinese railroad workers across the Pacific / Zhang Guoxiong, with Roland Hsu
  • Overseas remittances of Chinese railroad workers in North America / Yuan Ding, with Roland Hsu
  • Chinese railroad workers' remittance networks : insights based on qiaoxiang documents / Liu Jin, with Roland Hsu
  • Archaeological contributions to research on Chinese railroad workers in North America / Barbara L. Voss
  • Living between misery and triumph : the material practices of Chinese railroad workers in North America / Barbara L. Voss
  • Landscapes of change : culture, nature, and the archaeological heritage of transcontinental railroads in the North American West / Kelly J. Dixon
  • The health and well-being of Chinese railroad workers / J. Ryan Kennedy, Sarah Heffner, Virginia Popper, Ryan P. Harrod, and John J. Crandall
  • Religion on the road : how Chinese migrants adapted popular religion to an American context / Kathryn Gin Lum
  • Tracking memory : encounters between Chinese railroad workers and Native Americans / Hsinya Huang
  • Railroad frames : landscapes and the Chinese railroad worker in photography, 1865-1869 / Denise Khor
  • Les fils du ciel : European travelers' accounts of Chinese railroad workers / Greg Robinson
  • The Chinese railroad worker in United States history textbooks : a historical genealogy, 1849-1965 / William Gow
  • Representing Chinese railroad workers in North America : Chinese historiography and literature, 1949-2015 / Yuan Shu
  • History lessons : remembering Chinese railroad workers in Dragon's gate and Donald Duk / Pin-chia Feng
  • The Chinese as railroad builders after Promontory / Shelley Fisher Fishkin
  • The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the transpacific Chinese diaspora, 1880-1885 / Zhongping Chen
  • Beyond railroad work : Chinese contributions to the development of Winnemucca and Elko, Nevada / Sue Fawn Chung
  • The remarkable life of a sometimes railroad worker : Chin Gee Hee, 1844-1929 / Beth Lew-Williams
  • The Chinese and the Stanfords : nineteenth-century America's fraught relationship with the China Men / Gordon H. Chang.

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