Indispensable Enemy
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A01=Alexander Saxton
america
american culture
american history
american west
anti chinese movement
asian american
Author_Alexander Saxton
california
california history
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Category=NHK
Category=NHTB
chinese americans
chinese confrontation
civil war
democratic party
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ethnic studies
historians
ideological
immigrants
jacksonian period
labor management
labor movement
labor relations
national identity
nationalism
nonfiction
pacific coast
political
race and class
racial prejudice
racism
united states
Product details
- ISBN 9780520029057
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jun 1975
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The purpose of this study is to examine the Chinese confrontation, on the Pacific Coast, as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majority. For reasons which will be evident in what follows, the main body of the work (chapters 3 through 11) will focus on the Democratic party and the labor movement of California through the forty-year period after the Civil War. The two opening chapters turn back to explore aspects of the Jacksonian background which appear crucial to an understanding of what occurred in California. The final chapter looks beyond the turn of the century to trace certain results of the sequence of events in the West for the labor movement as a whole, and to suggest the influence of those events upon the crystallization of an American concept of national identity.
Alexander Saxton is Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Los Angeles.
