The Road to Chinese Exclusion: The Denver Riot, 1880 Election, and Rise of the West

Name: The Road to Chinese Exclusion: The Denver Riot, 1880 Election, and Rise of the West
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ISBN: 9780700619191

ISBN-10: 0700619194

ISBN-13: 9780700619191

Edition: 2013

Authors: Liping Zhu

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Denver in the Gilded Age may have been an economic boomtown, but it was also a powder keg waiting to explode. When that inevitable eruption occurred--in the Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880--it was sparked by white resentment at the growing encroachment of Chinese immigrants who had crossed the Pacific Ocean and journeyed overland in response to an expanding labor market. Liping Zhu's book provides the first detailed account of this momentous conflagration and carefully delineates the story of how anti-Chinese nativism in the nineteenth century grew from a regional political concern to a full-fledged national issue.Zhu tells a complex tale about race, class, and politics. He reconstructs the drama…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 376
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English