Displaying 1 of 1 1989 Format: Book Author: Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-2009. Title: Strangers from a different shore : a history of Asian Americans / Ronald Takaki. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: Boston : Little, Brown, ©1989. Description: ix, 570 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: A history of Asian Americans, introducing the people, the cultures, and their hope, fears, contribution, and dreams. Subjects: Asian Americans -- History. Asian Americans -- Social conditions. Asian Americans. Asian Americans -- Social conditions. Asiaten. Einwanderung. Geschichte. Einwanderung. Geschichte. Asian Americans -- History. Asian Americans -- Social conditions. USA. USA. Asiaten. United States -- History. Genre: History. Notes: Maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: From a different shore: their history bursts with telling -- Overblown with hope: the first wave of Asian immigration -- Gam Saan Haak: the Chinese in nineteenth-century America -- Raising cane: the world of plantation Hawaii -- Ethnic solidarity: the settling of Japanese America -- Ethnic islands: the emergence of urban Chinese America -- Struggling against colonialism: Koreans in America -- "The tide of turbans": Asian Indians in America -- Dollar a day, dime a dance: the forgotten Filipinos -- The watershed of World War II: democracy and race -- "Strangers" at the gates again: post-1965 -- Breaking silences: community of memory. Web Site: Table of contents LCCN: 89002816 ISBN: 0316831093 9780316831093 Other Number: 19123905 System Availability: 1 # System items in: 1 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Find It Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
