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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad - Asian America Gordon H. Chang-Shelley Fisher Fishkin
The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad - Asian America
Gordon H. Chang-Shelley Fisher Fishkin
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.
560 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 30, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9781503608290 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 560 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 236 × 40 mm · 997 g |
| Editor | Chang, Gordon H. |
| Editor | Fishkin, Shelley Fisher |