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In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was
removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding
years. But friction between Chinese and white settlers on the
goldfields of California, Australia and South Africa catalysed a
global battle over "the Chinese Question": Would the United States
and the British Empire outlaw Chinese immigration? This
distinguished history of the Chinese diaspora and global capitalism
chronicles how a feverish alchemy of race and money brought Chinese
to the West and reshaped the nineteenth-century world-from Europe's
subjugation of China to the rise of the international gold standard
and the invention of racist, anti-Chinese stereotypes that linger
to this day. Drawing on ten years of research across five
continents, prize-winning historian Mae Ngai argues that Chinese
exclusion was not extraneous to the emergent global economy but an
integral part of it.
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was
removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding
years. But friction between Chinese and white settlers on the
goldfields of California, Australia and South Africa catalysed a
global battle over "the Chinese Question": Would the United States
and the British Empire outlaw Chinese immigration? This
distinguished history of the Chinese diaspora and global capitalism
chronicles how a feverish alchemy of race and money brought Chinese
to the West and reshaped the nineteenth-century world-from Europe's
subjugation of China to the rise of the international gold standard
and the invention of racist, anti-Chinese stereotypes that linger
to this day. Drawing on ten years of research across five
continents, prize-winning historian Mae Ngai argues that Chinese
exclusion was not extraneous to the emergent global economy but an
integral part of it.
An in-depth look at trends in North American internal migration.
This volume gathers established and new scholars working on North
American immigration, transmigration, internal migration, and
citizenship whose work analyzes the development of migrant and
state-level institutions as well as migrant networks. With
contemporary migration research most often focused on the
development of transnational communities and the ways international
migrants maintain relationships with their sending region that
sustain the circularflow of people, ideas, and traditions across
national boundaries it is useful to compare these to similar
patterns evident within the terrain of internal migration. To date,
however, international and internal migration studies have unfolded
in relative isolation from one another with each operating within
these distinct fields of expertise rather than across them.
Although there has been some important linking, there has not been
a recent major consideration of human migration that works across
and within the various borders of the North American continent.
Thus, the volume presents a variety of chapters that seek to
consider human migration in comparative perspective across the
internal/international divide. Marc S. Rodriguez is Assistant
Professor of History at Princeton University; Donna R. Gabbaccia is
the Mellon Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh;
James R. Grossman is theVice President of Research and Education at
the Newberry Library, Chicago. Contributors: Josef Barton, Wallace
Best, Donna Gabbaccia, James Gregory, Tobias Higbie, Mae Ngai,
Walter Nugent, Annelise Orleck, Kunal Parker, Kimberly Phillips,
Bruno Ramirez, Marc Rodriguez Repositioning North American
Migration History is a volume in Studies in Comparative History,
sponsored by Princeton University's Shelby Cullom Davis Center
forHistorical Studies.
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