1935 lumber strike
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American West
Author_Michael T. Karp
California
California coast
California history
capitalism
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Chinese history
Chinese immigrants expulsion
coastal history
environment
environmental history
environmental studies
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ethnic cleansing
genocide
global capitalism
History
History of the American West
immigration
industry
Island Massacre of1860
labor history
labor struggle
Native American history
Pacific Basin
Pacific history
Pacific migration
Pacific world
Pacific World History
race
racial violence
redwood history
state power
violence
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- ISBN 9781496220288
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2025
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Raising the Redwood Curtain explores how shifting land use practices and exploitative labor patterns spurred by the colonial settlement of the Pacific world influenced the genocide of California’s Native people, anti-Asian campaigns, and the oppression of eastern European immigrant workers. By carefully examining these local developments, it explores how global capitalism fundamentally reordered labor patterns and social relations.
By analyzing the history of three episodes of labor and racial violence in Humboldt County, California, Michael T. Karp spans nearly a century in a detailed examination of the causes and interconnections between the Indian Island massacre of 1860, the expulsion of Chinese and Japanese people from the county between 1885 and 1906, and the killing and persecution of eastern Europeans during the Great Lumber Strike of 1935.
Regional labor and land use patterns shaped these events, but so did global economic developments and environmental change, connecting disparate acts of racial violence across time. By bringing together new scholarship on the American West, environmental history, and the Pacific world, Michael T. Karp illustrates the importance of considering communities on the periphery to better understand the violence that defined the colonial settlement of North America.
By analyzing the history of three episodes of labor and racial violence in Humboldt County, California, Michael T. Karp spans nearly a century in a detailed examination of the causes and interconnections between the Indian Island massacre of 1860, the expulsion of Chinese and Japanese people from the county between 1885 and 1906, and the killing and persecution of eastern Europeans during the Great Lumber Strike of 1935.
Regional labor and land use patterns shaped these events, but so did global economic developments and environmental change, connecting disparate acts of racial violence across time. By bringing together new scholarship on the American West, environmental history, and the Pacific world, Michael T. Karp illustrates the importance of considering communities on the periphery to better understand the violence that defined the colonial settlement of North America.
Michael T. Karp is an assistant professor of history at California State University, San Bernardino.
