Screen LibraryThe filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West /
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University of California Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oakland, California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-276) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520284609 (paperback ; alkaline paper) : 0520284607 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | HD8039 |
| CLC: | F249.712.9 |
| Call Number: | F249.712.9/D285 |
| Contents: | "Bind the Republic together": canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress -- "A wretched and miserable condition"; Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal communities in the Hoosier State -- "Abuse of the labour and lives of men" : Irish construction workers and the violence of progress on the Illinois transportation frontier -- "Hell (and Heaven) on wheels": Mormons, immigrants, and the reconstruction of American progress and masculinity on the transcontinental railroad -- "The greatest monument of human labor": Chinese immigrants, the landscape of progress, and the work of building and celebrating the transcontinental railroad -- End-of-track: reflections on the history of immigrant labor and American progress. |