Garden of the world : Asian immigrants and the making of agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley / Cecilia M. Tsu.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tsu, Cecilia M.
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Asian Americans > California > Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) > History.
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) > Ethnic relations.
Agriculture > California > Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) > History.
Fruit trade > California > Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) > History.
Fruit growers > California > Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) > History.
Physical Description:xi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Independent of the unskilled chinaman : race, labor, and family farming
  • Transplanted : the world of early Issei farmers
  • Pioneering men and women : Japanese gender relations in rural California
  • Defending the American farm home : Japanese farm families and the anti-Japanese movement
  • From menace to model : reshaping the oriental problem
  • Reds, communists, and fruit strikers : Filipinos and the Great Depression.