Shellfish for the celestial empire
Subtitle: the rise and fall of commercial abalone fishing in California
By: Todd J. Braje
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781607814962
Subjects: Black abalone; Fishers; Abalones; Antiquities; Abalone fisheries; Chinese Americans; Emigration and immigration; History
Other titles: Rise and fall of commercial abalone fishing in California
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fish and fisheries in southern California: a history of collapse; title: Of anchors, admirals, and artifice: the Chinese before Columbus?; title: Chinese history and the exodus to Gold Mountain; title: Chinese immigrants in the wild west; title: The archaeology of Chinese abalone fishing in southern California; title: Nineteenth-century abalone fishing on California's Channel Islands: the archaeology of California's Channel Islands: The archaeology of Johnsons Lee and Point Bennett; title: A march toward exclusion: twilight of the Chinese abalone fishery; title: An enduring legacy?.