Iker Saitua

Gebundenes Buch

Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry: Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954

Beschreibung

Contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of the Basque immigration in the western sheep industry with a historically refreshed perspective. It contributes to the existing new historiography of the American West by looking more critically at the Basque immigrant experience in the open-range sheep industry of Nevada.

Autor

Iker Saitua is a Basque Government Postdocroral Fellow in History at the University of California, Riverside and the University of the Basque Country(UPV/EHU). As a native of the Basque Country and a historian of the Basque Country and United States, he specializes in the American West, the history of capitalism and commodities, environmental history, migration and labor history. He lives in Riverside, California.

Produktdetails

• Basque
• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781948908016
• ISBN-10: 1948908018
• Artikelnr.: 54437591