Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
The Keystone
Author: Goldsmiths Journal
Author: Illustrated Trade Catalogue and Price List
Author: Swartchild & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clock and watch making
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review
Author: The Jewelers' Circular
Author: The Ship's Chronometer
Author: Marvin E. WhitneyPublisher: Amer Watchmakers Inst
ISBN: 9780918845085
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
The Modern Watchmakers Lathe and How to Use It
Author: Archie B. PerkinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780918845238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The History of Louisville
Author: Ben CassedayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisville (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Refining Precious Metal Wastes, Gold--silver--platinum Metals
Author: Calm Morrison HokePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metallurgy
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Sojourners and Settlers
Author: Clarence E. GlickPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824882407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Among the many groups of Chinese who migrated from their ancestral homeland in the nineteenth century, none found a more favorable situation that those who came to Hawaii. Coming from South China, largely as laborers for sugar plantations and Chinese rice plantations but also as independent merchants and craftsmen, they arrived at a time when the tiny Polynesian kingdom was being drawn into an international economic, political, and cultural world. Sojourners and Settlers traces the waves of Chinese immigration, the plantation experience, and movement into urban occupations. Important for the migrants were their close ties with indigenous Hawaiians, hundreds establishing families with Hawaiian wives. Other migrants brought Chinese wives to the islands. Though many early Chinese families lived in the section of Honolulu called "Chinatown," this was never an exclusively Chinese place of residence, and under Hawaii's relatively open pattern of ethnic relations Chinese families rapidly became dispersed throughout Honolulu. Chinatown was, however, a nucleus for Chinese business, cultural, and organizational activities. More than two hundred organizations were formed by the migrants to provide mutual aid, to respond to discrimination under the monarchy and later under American laws, and to establish their status among other Chinese and Hawaii's multiethnic community. Professor Glick skillfully describes the organizational network in all its subtlety. He also examines the social apparatus of migrant existence: families, celebrations, newspapers, schools--in short, the way of life. Using a sociological framework, the author provides a fascinating account of the migrant settlers' transformation from villagers bound by ancestral clan and tradition into participants in a mobile, largely Westernized social order.