Chang, Gordon H. (Editor)
Hsu, Roland (Contributor)
Obenzinger, Hilton (Contributor)
Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (Editor)
The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out West, and helped speed America's entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford would found Stanford University some two decades later. But while the transcontinental has often been celebrated in national memory, little attention has been paid to the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce on the Western portion of the line. The railroad could not have been built without Chinese labor, but the lives of Chinese railroad workers themselves have been little understood and largely invisible. This landmark volume shines new light on the Chinese railroad workers and their place in cultural memory. The Chinese and the Iron Road illuminates more fully than ever before the interconnected economies of China and the US, how immigration across the Pacific changed both nations, the dynamics of the racism the workers encountered, the conditions under which they labored, and their role in shaping both the history of the railroad and the development of the American West.
...MoreReview Stephanie Hinnershitz (2020) Review of "The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the transcontinental railroad". Journal of American History (pp. 765-766).
Review Robert Cliver (October 2020) Review of "The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the transcontinental railroad". Technology and Culture (pp. 1258-1259).
Book
Francaviglia, Richard V.;
(2008)
Over the Range: A history of the Promontory Summit route of the Pacific railroad
(/isis/citation/CBB981159869/)
Book
Alfred A. Hart;
Wendell W. Huffman;
Goldbaum, Howard;
(2012)
Waiting for the Cars: Alfred A. Hart's Stereoscopic Views of the Central Pacific Railroad, 1863-1869
(/isis/citation/CBB494462085/)
Article
Ron Goldfeber;
Peter A. Hansen;
(Spring-Summer 2019)
The Pacific Railroads: U.S. Operating Companies in Alphabetical Order
(/isis/citation/CBB873515283/)
Book
James E. Sherow;
(2014)
Railroad Empire Across the Heartland: Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey
(/isis/citation/CBB624162414/)
Book
Vernon J. Glover;
(2021)
El Paso and Southwestern Railroad System
(/isis/citation/CBB113100675/)
Book
Kenneth R. Middleton;
Norman F. Priebe;
(2010)
Steam locomotives of the Great Northern Railway
(/isis/citation/CBB254825924/)
Book
Jeff Asay;
(2014)
Union Pacific Northwest: A Revised and Expanded History of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company
(/isis/citation/CBB860612853/)
Book
John Gruber;
Ryan, John;
Kenton H. Forrest;
Robert W. McLeod;
(2017)
San Luis Central, Greely East, Arkansas Valley Railway
(/isis/citation/CBB904087110/)
Book
Lee, Thomas R.;
(1998)
Rock Island Westward, Vol. 2: Rails to the Rockies- A History of the Western Division
(/isis/citation/CBB422989590/)
Book
Lorenz P. Schrenk;
Robert L. Frey;
(2010)
Northern Pacific: Pioneer steam era
(/isis/citation/CBB057031982/)
Book
John King;
(2018)
Gilbert Szlumper and Leo Amery of the Southern Railway : the diaries of a general manager and a director
(/isis/citation/CBB326395113/)
Book
Dennis Drabelle;
(2012)
The great American railroad war: How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris took on the notorious Central Pacific Railroad
(/isis/citation/CBB032369523/)
Book
Linda Niemann;
(2010)
Railroad noir: The American West at the end of the twentieth century
(/isis/citation/CBB348774037/)
Book
Mary Amanda Helmich;
Kevin V. Bunker;
(2018)
A legacy in brick & iron: Sacramento's Central & Southern Pacific Railroad shops
(/isis/citation/CBB258498215/)
Article
Joseph A. Strapac;
(Spring/Summer 2014)
Mr. Harriman's Common Standard 2-8-0 locomotives
(/isis/citation/CBB610740296/)
Article
Adam T. Michalski;
(Spring/Summer 2015)
Milwaukee Road's Electrification
(/isis/citation/CBB853179864/)
Article
John Gruber;
(Fall-Winter 2016)
Hard-working, Dedicated Section Crews
(/isis/citation/CBB048067946/)
Book
Signor, John R.;
(2007)
Southern Pacific's Salt Lake Division
(/isis/citation/CBB589325333/)
Book
Gamboa, Erasmo;
(2016)
Bracero Railroaders : The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West
(/isis/citation/CBB832836385/)
Book
David F. Myrick;
(1984)
Railroads of Arizona, Vol. 3: Clifton, Morenci and Metcalf, Rails and Copper Mines -- Arizona Locomotive Rosters
(/isis/citation/CBB799397716/)
Be the first to comment!