The Chinese and the Iron Road
Building the Transcontinental Railroad
The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and helped speed America's entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford would found Stanford University some two decades later. But while the Transcontinental has often been celebrated in national memory, little attention has…
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Weitere Autoren: Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5036-0925-9
- EAN: 9781503609259
- Produktnummer: 30238023
- Verlag: Stanford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 560 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 41'578 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin are Co-Directors of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford; Hilton Obenzinger is Associate Director and Roland Hsu is Director of Research.
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