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Seattle from the Margins - Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (Paperback) Loot Price: R614
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Seattle from the Margins - Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (Paperback): Megan Asaka

Seattle from the Margins - Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (Paperback)

Megan Asaka

Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography

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From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive economy of the Pacific Northwest. Though the city benefitted from this mobile labor force-consisting largely of Indigenous peoples and Asian migrants-municipal authorities, elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the spaces they inhabited as troublesome and as impediments to urban progress. Today the physical landscape bears little evidence of their historical presence in the city. Tracing histories from unheralded sites such as labor camps, lumber towns, lodging houses, and so-called slums, Seattle from the Margins shows how migrant laborers worked alongside each other, competed over jobs, and forged unexpected alliances within the marine and coastal spaces of the Puget Sound. By uncovering the historical presence of marginalized groups and asserting their significance in the development of the city, Megan Asaka offers a deeper understanding of Seattle's complex past.

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Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
Release date: 2023
Authors: Megan Asaka
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-75186-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > History > American history > General
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LSN: 0-295-75186-X
Barcode: 9780295751863

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