Gold mountain turned to dust : essays on the legal history of the Chinese in the nineteenth-century American West / John R. Wunder ; foreword by Liping Zhu.

"Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in gold mining, railroad construction, the founding of small businesses, and land reclamation, the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrimin...

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Main Author: Wunder, John R. (Author)
Other Authors: Zhu, Liping (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
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Physical Description:xix, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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