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• Publisher : Stanford University Press
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• Release Date : 17 June 2024

This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from the county of Taishan, from which, until 1965, a high percentage of the Chinese in the United States originated.

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• File Size : 36,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2022

From the earliest days of non-Native settlement of Montana, when Chinese immigrants made up more than 10 percent of the territory’s population, Chinese pioneers played a key role in the

• Publisher : Basic Books
• File Size : 34,7 Mb
• Release Date : 03 October 2017

A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 26 October 2020

Tracing journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, this book describes the circulation of people through one of the world’s great river systems between the

• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• File Size : 26,8 Mb
• Release Date : 16 September 2022

The term “Heartland” in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But

• Publisher : University of California Press
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• Release Date : 27 August 2019

In the first decades of the 20th century, almost half of the Chinese Americans born in the United States moved to China—a relocation they assumed would be permanent. At

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 09 December 2010

This title traces several generations of Chinese 'brokers, ' ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. By reinserting Chinese back into mainstream politics,

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
• File Size : 25,9 Mb
• Release Date : 12 September 2016

James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to

• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
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• Release Date : 17 June 2024

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
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• Release Date : 22 April 2024

In the early and mid-twentieth century, Chinese migrants evaded draconian anti-immigrant laws by entering the US under false papers that identified them as the sons of people who had returned