The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad Contributor(s): Chang, Gordon H. (Editor), Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (Editor) |
|
ISBN: 1503608298 ISBN-13: 9781503608290 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - 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: 1.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (2.20 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. |