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 meticulous 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, like whites, 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 even make 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.
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Sue Fawn Chung is Professor Emerita of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West , an honor book selection for the Caroline Bancroft History Prize.
Titel
Chinese in the Woods
Untertitel
Logging and Lumbering in the American West
Autor
EAN
9780252097553
ISBN
978-0-252-09755-3
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
16.09.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
4.26 MB
Anzahl Seiten
288
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch
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