A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a

by Anthony W. Lee

Book Overview

On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then--remarkably--their new employer lined them up along the south wall of his factory and had them photographed as the mob fell silent. So begins A Shoemaker's Story. Anthony Lee seeks to understand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691133255
• ISBN13: 9780691133256
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 8.8"