A History Of The Chinese In Nevada 1855 1904
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History of Nevada
| Author | : Russell R. Elliott |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 524 |
| Release | : 1987-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0803267150 |
Maintaining the same high standards of the first edition, published in 1973, this new, revised edition is still the most comprehensive one-volume history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." In revising, Elliott summarizes the state's economic, political, and social history since 1973 and strengthens a major point he made then: that Nevada's acceptance of liberal marriage and divorce laws and of legalized gambling brought economic stability to a state singularly devoid of stable economic resources. -- from Book Jacket
Chinese in the Woods
| Author | : Sue Fawn Chung |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2015-09-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0252097556 |
Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, towns, and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion. Chinese workers labored as woodcutters and flume-herders, lumberjacks and loggers. Exploding the myth of the Chinese as a docile and cheap labor army, Chung shows Chinese laborers earned wages similar to those of non-Asians. Men working as camp cooks, among other jobs, could make even more. At the same time, she draws on archives and archaeology to reconstruct everyday existence, offering evocative portraits of camp living, small town life, personal and work relationships, and the production and technical aspects of a dangerous trade. Chung also explores how Chinese used the legal system to win property and wage rights and how economic and technological change ultimately diminished Chinese participation in the lumber industry. Eye-opening and meticulous, Chinese in the Woods rewrites an important chapter in the history of labor and the American West.
The Chinese in America
| Author | : Susie Lan Cassel |
| Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
| Total Pages | : 490 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780759100015 |
This new collection of essays demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the 150-year experience of Chinese immigration in America. Chinese-Americans have been courted as 'model workers' by American business, but also continue to be perceived as perpetual foreigners. The contributors offer engrossing accounts of the lives of immigrants, their tenacity, their diverse lifeways, from the arrival of the first Chinese gold miners in 1849 into the present day. The 21st century begins as a uniquely 'Pacific Century' in the Americas, with an increasingly large presence of Asians in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The book will be a valuable resource on the Asian immigrant experience for researchers and students in Chinese American studies, Asian American history, immigration studies, and American history.
Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens
| Author | : Mark Warner |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2017-06-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0803277288 |
"An exploration of Western historical archaeologists' role in American regionalism and a call for creating archaeologies of the West as an alternative to the isolated archaeologists working in the West"--Provided by publisher.
Nevada Guide to Genealogical Records
| Author | : Diane E. Greene |
| Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780806348162 |
"This book pulls together records from a variety of sources, including information from county court houses, Nevada internet sites, and various lists..."--Page iv.
Chinese American Literature Since the 1850s
| Author | : Xiao-huang Yin |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : 9780252025242 |
This volume, an introduction and guide to the field, traces the origins and development of a body of literature written in English and in Chinese.
Chinese Immigrants and American Law
| Author | : Charles McClain |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Chinese |
| ISBN | : 9780815318491 |
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Nevada's Remarkable Women
| Author | : Jan Cleere |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2015-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1493015842 |
This book presents the compelling histories of fifteen pioneer women, all born before 1900, who traveled Nevada Territory in unstable wagons, on temperamental mules, and in early Motel Ts to leave a legacy of courage and celebration as they broke records, hearts, and rules while conquering uncharted ground. Meet Ferminia Sarras, a Nicaraguan immigrant with four young daughters who arrived in Nevada in the early 1800s determined to seek her fortune as a miner . . . and succeeded; Dat so la lee, a Washoe Indian renowned for her basket-weaving artistry whose work is today preserved in museums; and Anne Henrietta Martin, a lifelong suffragette who fought for women's rights and was instrumental in securing the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote.
