The Chinese And The Iron Road Building The Transcontinental Railroad

Author: Gordon H. Chang (Editor); Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Editor)

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ISBN : 9781503609242
Publisher : Stanford University Press
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Author : Gordon H. Chang (Editor); Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Editor)
Series : Asian America Ser.
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Language : English
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This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Central Pacific Railroad-but who have been little understood and largely invisible in traditional accounts of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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