| ISBN |
1328618579 (hardcover)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9781328618573 (hardcover)
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| 無効なISBN等 |
9781328618610 (ebook)
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
686.253
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| 個人著者標目 |
Chang, Gordon H.
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| 本タイトル |
Ghosts of Gold Mountain :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
the epic story of the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad /
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| 著者名 |
Gordon H. Chang.
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| その他のタイトル |
Epic story of the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
Boston :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
2019,
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| 数量 |
312 pages :
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| 他の形態的事項 |
illustrations, maps ;
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| 大きさ |
24 cm.
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| 内容注記 |
Guangdong -- Gold Mountain -- Central Pacific -- Foothills -- The High Sierra -- The Summit -- The strike -- Truckee -- The Golden Spike -- Beyond Promontory.
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
"A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now"--Provided by publisher.,"The long-lost tale of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history. In 1864, as the Civil War still raged, throngs of Chinese migrants began to converge on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad. Over the next five years, they blasted tunnels through the granite cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laid tracks across the burning Nevada and Utah deserts. As many as twelve hundred lost their lives along the route. Those who survived would suffer a different kind of death: a historical one, as they were pushed first to the margins of American life and then to the fringes of public memory. Of the twenty thousand Chinese laborers who toiled on the western portion of the Transcontinental, not one is named in histories of the railroad. Many were literate, yet not a scrap of their writing remains. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning historian Gordon H. Chang recovers the stories of these "silent spikes" and returns them to their rightful place in our national saga. Drawing on recent archaeological findings, as well as payroll records, ship manifests, photographs, and other sources from American and Chinese archives, Chang retraces the laborers' odyssey in breathtaking detail. He introduces individual workers, describes their hopes and fears, and shows how they lived, ate, fought, loved, worked, and worshiped. Their sweat and blood not only fueled the ascent of an interlinked, industrial United States, but also laid the groundwork for a thriving Chinese America. A magisterial feat of scholarship and storytelling, Ghosts of Gold Mountain honors these immigrants' sacrifice and ingenuity, and celebrates their role in this defining American achievement."--Jacket.,In 1864, as the Civil War still raged, throngs of Chinese migrants began to converge on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad. Over the next five years, they blasted tunnels through the granite cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laid tracks across the burning Nevada and Utah deserts. As many as twelve hundred lost their lives along the route. Those who survived would suffer a different kind of death: a historical one. Chang retraces the laborers' odyssey, showing how they lived, ate, fought, loved, worked, and worshiped. --adapted from jacket
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| 団体件名 |
Central Pacific Railroad Company -- Employees
Central Pacific Railroad Company. -- History. |
| 一般件名 |
Railroad construction workers -- History -- West (U.S.) -- 19th century.
Foreign workers, Chinese -- History -- West (U.S.) -- 19th century. |
| 地名件名 |
China -- History -- 19th century.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century. |
| 資料情報1 |
『A manual of the mechanics of engineering and of the construction of machines :
designed as a text-book for technical schools and colleges, and for the use of engineers, architects, etc.
Vol. 2, sect. 2, pt. 2 /』 tr.by. f A. Jay Du Bois. J. Wiley & sons, 1880,c1878.
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/5310/W42/M2-2
資料コード：1221425172）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352045102 |
