Garden of the world
Subtitle: Asian immigrants and the making of agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley
By: Cecilia M. Tsu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780199734771; 9780199734788
Subjects: Asian Americans; Fruit trade; Fruit growers; Agriculture; Ethnic relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Independent of the unskilled chinaman : race, labor, and family farming; title: Transplanted : the world of early Issei farmers; title: Pioneering men and women : Japanese gender relations in rural California; title: Defending the American farm home : Japanese farm families and the anti-Japanese movement; title: From menace to model : reshaping the oriental problem; title: Reds, communists, and fruit strikers : Filipinos and the Great Depression.