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  • The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky

    A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana

    by Mark T. Johnson ...
    Winner of the Denver Public Library's 2023 Caroline Bancroft History PrizeWinner of the 2023 W. Turrentine Jackson AwardFrom the earliest days of non-Native settlement of Montana, when Chinese immigrants made up more than 10 percent of the territory’s population, Chinese pioneers played a key role in the region’s development. But this population, so crucial to Montana’s history, remains ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • "The Touch of Civilization"

    Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization

    by Steven Sabol ...
    The Touch of Civilization is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the Sioux of the Great Plains and the Kazakhs of the Eurasian Steppe. In the revealing juxtaposition of these two cases author Steven Sabol elucidates previously unexplored connections between the state ... Read more

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  • The Chinese in America

    A Narrative History

    by Iris Chang ...
    A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of NankingIn an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (Updated and Revised)

    by Ronald Takaki ...
    In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese ... Read more

    $9.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask

    by Thomas E. Woods Jr. ...
    Guess what? The Indians didn’t save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. Thomas Jefferson thought states’ rights—an idea reviled today—were even more important than the Constitution’s checks and balances. The “Wild” West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal of the Clinton years didn’t involve an intern in a blue dress.Surprised? ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Dr. Sun Yat-Sen : his life and achievements

    by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen ...
    One of greatest achievements book is that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was able to find a living synthesis between the ancient and the modern, between the East and the West, and combining them together to make China a modern country. ... Read more

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  • The Color of Success

    Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

    by Ellen D. Wu ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Driven Out

    The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans

    by Jean Pfaelzer ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation’s past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Lucky Ones

    One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America

    by Mae Ngai ...
    This rags-to-riches history of three generations offers a "terrifically readable, compelling" look at the Chinese middle class and the immigrant experience ( Publishers Weekly).In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself as Joseph Tape, an immigration broker whose new life allowed his family to become one of the first of a brand ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Asian American History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Madeline Y. Hsu ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even demeaning, moments. This book provides a sweeping and nuanced history of Asian Americans, revealing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Chinese Question

    The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics

    by Mae Ngai ...
    **Winner of the 2022 Bancroft PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Cundill History PrizeFinalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book PrizeHow Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race.**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, bringing ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Where Goes China?

    by Ross Terill ...
    No one wishes for China to collapse, writes New York Times bestselling author and Mao biographer Ross Terrill. But some setbacks should be welcomed by the West. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus