Immigration at the Golden Gate
Subtitle: passenger ships, exclusion, and Angel Island
By: Robert Eric Barde.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780313347825
Subjects: Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.) -- History; Asians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century; Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Description: xiii, 283 p. : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Exclusion, detention, and Angel Island; title: An alleged wife; title: Before Angel Island; title: Moving migrants across the Pacific; title: Asiatic steerage; title: The life and death of the China mail; title: The Nippon Maru : a career in the immigration trade; title: Keepers of the Golden Gate; title: The great immigrant smuggling scandal; title: Mr. Section 6; title: Epilogue.