Cecilia M. Tsu

Garden of the World

Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley

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Produktbeschreibung

Garden of the World examines how overlapping waves of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino immigrants fundamentally altered the agricultural economy and landscape of the Santa Clara Valley as well as white residents' ideas about race, gender, and what it meant to be an American family farmer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780199734788
• ISBN-10: 019973478X
• Artikelnr.: 37085380

Autorenporträt

Cecilia M. Tsu is Assistant Professor of HIstory, University of California, Davis

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1. "Independent of the Unskilled Chinaman": Race, Labor, and
Family Farming
* Chapter 2. Transplanted: The World of Early Issei Farmers
* Chapter 3. Pioneering Men and Women: Japanese Gender Relations in
Rural California
* Chapter 4. "Defending the American Farm Home": Japanese Farm Families
and the Anti-Japanese Movement
* Chapter 5. From Menace to Model: Reshaping the "Oriental Problem"
* Chapter 6. "Reds, communists, and fruit strikers": Filipinos and the
Great Depression
* Epilogue
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index