Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II

by Elliott Young

Book Overview

In this sweeping work, Elliott 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. The Chinese came as laborers, streaming across borders legally and illegally and working jobs few others wanted, from constructing railroads in California to harvesting sugar cane in Cuba. Though nations were built in part from their labor, Young argues that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469612968
• ISBN13: 9781469612966
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"