The Chinese And The Iron Road: Building The Transcontinental Railroad (Asian America) - 9781503608290

This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Central Pacific Railroad--but who have been little understood and largely invisible in traditional accounts of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

• | Author: Gordon H. Chang|Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Gordon H. Chang
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 560 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1503608298
• | ISBN-13: 9781503608290