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020 _a9780199344987 (ebook) :
_cNo price
040 _aStDuBDS
_beng
_cStDuBDS
_erda
_epn
050 0 _aF868.S25
_bT78 2013
082 0 4 _a338.108995079473
_223
100 1 _aTsu, Cecilia M.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aGarden of the world :
_bAsian immigrants and the making of agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley /
_cCecilia M. Tsu.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource :
_billustrations (black and white)
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
336 _astill image
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 _aNearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil. Virtually all farms were owned by whites, but the soil was largely worked by Asian immigrants. In this book, Cecilia Tsu tells the overlooked and intertwined histories of the land of the Santa Clara Valley and the Asian immigrants who cultivated it.
588 _aDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2013).
650 0 _aAsian Americans
_zCalifornia
_zSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
_xEthnic relations.
650 0 _aAgriculture
_zCalifornia
_zSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
_xHistory.
650 0 _aFruit trade
_zCalifornia
_zSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
_xHistory.
650 0 _aFruit growers
_zCalifornia
_zSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
_xHistory.
776 0 8 _iPrint version :
_z9780199734771
856 4 0 _3Oxford scholarship online
_uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199734771.001.0001
975 _aOxford scholarship online 2024
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