Alien Nation : Chinese Migration In The Americas From The Coolie Era Through World War Ii
2014
EBook
"Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the 'coolie' trade and ending during World War II. This book is the first transnational history of Chinese migration to the Americas. By focusing on the fluidity and complexity of border crossings throughout the Western Hemisphere, Young shows us how Chinese migrants constructed alternative communities and identities through these transnational pathways"--Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781469613406
- 9781469612973
Description:
- 1 online resource.
- text file
Notes:
- Electronic book.
- Electronic reproduction. LaVergne The University of North Carolina Press 2014 Available via World Wide Web.
Contents:
- Note on language and terminology
- Introduction: Aliens and the nation
- Part 1. Coolies and contracts, 1847-1874
- Contested sovereignties : coolies on the high seas
- Contracting freedom
- Part 2. Clandestine crossings and the production of illegal aliens, 1882-1900
- The rights of man and of the citizen, 1882-1900
- The immigration bureaucracy and the production of illegal aliens
- Clandestine crossings to the United States
- Part 3. Competing revolutionary nationalisms, 1900-1940
- Revolutionary nationalism and xenophobia
- Chinese diasporic networks
- Epilogue.
Control Number: 3058013
Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.Series:
- David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
- David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
Subjects:
- America -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
- America -- Race relations.
- China -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
- Chinese -- America -- History -- 19th century.
- Chinese -- America -- History -- 20th century.
- Community life -- America -- History.
- Ethnicity -- America -- History.
- Foreign workers, Chinese -- America -- History.
- Immigrants -- America -- History.
- Transnationalism -- History.
Genre: Electronic books.
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