| The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad Contributor(s): Chang, Gordon H. (Editor), Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1503609243 ISBN-13: 9781503609242 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $28.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Transportation | Railroads - History - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies |
| Dewey: 331.625 |
| LCCN: 2018037786 |
| Series: Asian America |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.85 lbs) 560 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |