Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Chinese and the Iron RoadCondition: NewSubtitle: Building the Transcontinental RailroadISBN-10: 1503609243EAN: 9781503609242ISBN: 9781503609242Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 30/04/2019Description: The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and helped speed America's entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford would found Stanford University some two decades later. But while the Transcontinental has often been celebrated in national memory, little attention has been paid to the Chinese workers who made up 90 percent of the workforce on the Western portion of the line. The Railroad could not have been built without Chinese labor, but the lives of Chinese railroad workers themselves have been little understood and largely invisible. This landmark volume explores the experiences of Chinese railroad workers and their place in cultural memory. The Chinese and the Iron Road illuminates more fully than ever before the interconnected economies of China and the US, how immigration across the Pacific changed both nations, the dynamics of the racism the workers encountered, the conditions under which they labored, and their role in shaping both the history of the railroad and the development of the American West.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmContributor: Gordon H. Chang (Edited by), Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Edited by)Genre: HistoryBook Series: Asian AmericaAuthor: Gordon H. ChangRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Chinese and the Iron Road
Publication Name: The Chinese and the Iron Road
Title: The Chinese and the Iron Road
Subtitle: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
ISBN-10: 1503609243
EAN: 9781503609242
ISBN: 9781503609242
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Year: 2019
Release Date: 30/04/2019
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Contributor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Edited by)
Genre: History
Series: Asian America
Author: Gordon H. Chang
