A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a

by Anthony W. Lee

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On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then--remarkably--their new employer lined them up along the south wall of his factory and had them photographed as the mob fell silent. So begins A Shoemaker's Story. Anthony Lee seeks to understand...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691133255

ISBN13:9780691133256

Release Date:July 2008

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:2.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 7.5" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

19th Century Administrative Law Arts, Music & Photography Business Business & Investing Civil War Economic History Economics Emigration & Immigration History

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