Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry : Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954 /

"This book contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of the Basque immigration in the western sheep industry with a historically refreshed perspective. It contributes to the existing new historiography of the American West by looking more critically at the Basque immigrant experi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saitua, Iker, 1987- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Shepherds.
Sheepherding.
Sheep industry.
Immigrants.
Basque Americans.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Moutons > Conduite du troupeau > Nevada > Histoire.
Americains d'origine basque > Nevada > Histoire.
Moutons > Industrie > Nevada > Histoire.
Sheep industry > West (U.S.) > History.
Immigrants > Nevada > History.
Sheepherding > Nevada > History.
Shepherds > Nevada > History.
Basque Americans > Nevada > History.
Sheep industry > Nevada > History.
West United States.
Nevada.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The promises of the Silver State : the development of the sheep industry in Nevada, 1850-1900
  • Becoming herders : Basque immigration, labor, and settlement in Nevada, 1880-1910
  • The struggle for legitimacy
  • Encroaching upon forbidden ground : Basque immigrant sheepherders and the creation of national forests in Nevada
  • "Desirable immigrants" : socio-economic ambivalence and Basque labor in Nevada's sheep industry, 1910-1939
  • The making of a good sheepherder
  • "Grasping at a straw" : the Basque labor shortage in the Nevada and western sheep industry during the Second World War
  • The indispensable Basque sheepherder : Senator Patrick McCarran and the sheep lobby, the exclusion of Mexicans, and the recruitment of Basque immigrants in the western sheep industry during WW II
  • The Basque immigrant sheepherder question and U.S.-Spanish relations during the early Cold War, 1945-1954.

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