This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910

by Sucheng Chan

Book Overview

Based on prodigious research, this book chronicles the activities of the thousands of Chinese agricultural pioneers and entrepreneurs who helped make California the nation's premier agricultural... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520053761
• ISBN13: 9780520053762
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 503 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent History

Sucheng Chan has written an excellent history of the contribution of Chinese agriculturists to the development of the American West. By interweaving the unusual with the mundane she has produced a text that relates statistically derived data to important generalizations regarding the interdependency of ethnic groups, labor specializations, and regions. Highly recommended to the historian or anthropologist interested in labor specialization and ethnic adaptation in the 19th and 20th centuries. This book is available in paper as well as hardback.