Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
American Exodus
Author: Charlotte BrooksPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520972554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
In the first decades of the 20th century, almost half of the Chinese Americans born in the United States moved to China—a relocation they assumed would be permanent. At a time when people from around the world flocked to the United States, this little-noticed emigration belied America’s image as a magnet for immigrants and a land of upward mobility for all. Fleeing racism, Chinese Americans who sought greater opportunities saw China, a tottering empire and then a struggling republic, as their promised land. American Exodus is the first book to explore this extraordinary migration of Chinese Americans. Their exodus shaped Sino-American relations, the development of key economic sectors in China, the character of social life in its coastal cities, debates about the meaning of culture and “modernity” there, and the U.S. government’s approach to citizenship and expatriation in the interwar years. Spanning multiple fields, exploring numerous cities, and crisscrossing the Pacific Ocean, this book will appeal to anyone interested in Chinese history, international relations, immigration history, and Asian American studies.
The Italian Emigration of Modern Times
Author: Patrizia Famà StahlePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443892815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Italian Emigration of Modern Times examines diplomatic issues that arose between Italy and the United States over a series of lynchings of Italian immigrant labourers before World War I. The work explores a significant epoch in Italian economic and diplomatic history which became intertwined with American ethnic and race relations issues. On one level, the book emphasises the pragmatism and restraint which characterized Italy’s official reactions to these repeated episodes of murder of its nationals. On another level, it shows that the diplomatic crises which swirled around the lynching of Italians pushed onto the American political scene the question of whether there should be a federal anti-lynching law. Naturally, the lynching of Italian nationals in the US produced wide public outrage in Italy. Italian domestic outcries presented the Italian government with a serious dilemma. Emigrant savings and financial transfers to family members remaining in Italy were an important economic asset. Italian diplomats launched investigations and protested vigorously, but ended up accepting federal financial compensation for the victims’ families. The consistent pragmatism and restraint of the Italian government through these episodes of violence is the unifying theme of the entire work.
Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Epidemic Invasions
Author: Mariola EspinosaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226218139
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United States to abandon their homes and flee for their lives. Originating in Cuba, the deadly plague inspired disease-control measures that not only protected U.S. trade interests but also justified the political and economic domination of the island nation from which the pestilence came. By focusing on yellow fever, Epidemic Invasions uncovers for the first time how the devastating power of this virus profoundly shaped the relationship between the two countries. Yellow fever in Cuba, Mariola Espinosa demonstrates, motivated the United States to declare war against Spain in 1898, and, after the war was won and the disease eradicated, the United States demanded that Cuba pledge in its new constitution to maintain the sanitation standards established during the occupation. By situating the history of the fight against yellow fever within its political, military, and economic context, Espinosa reveals that the U.S. program of sanitation and disease control in Cuba was not a charitable endeavor. Instead, she shows that it was an exercise in colonial public health that served to eliminate threats to the continued expansion of U.S. influence in the world.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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Bulletin of the Pan American Union
Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Annual Reports of Officers, Boards, and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the Year Ending September 30 ...
Author: VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1734
Book Description
Author: Virginia
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