| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 338 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338). |
| Contents |
Foreword / Bridget Brereton -- Guest Foreword / Lu Shulin -- Chinese in the Caribbean region -- Possibilities and Prospects of Organised Emigration -- Early efforts at importing Chinese labour into the West Indies (1802-1806): the Fortitude experiment in Trinidad -- Events leading up to organised emigration from China to the British West Indies (1811-1852) -- General picture of emigration from China in the 1850s -- Emigration and Adjustment to West Indian Plantations -- Beginning of the emigration process (1852-1854) -- Emigration years (1859-1866) -- Social adjustment to plantation life and society -- Kung Convention and Its Aftermath -- Diplomatic impasse over the 1866 Convention, and the last years of the West Indian migration (1866-1884) -- Emergence of the Modern Chinese Community -- Life after indenture: indentured servants to traders (1870-1918) -- Life in the inter-war period and after: social mobility, assimilation and the new migration (1918-1950) -- Biographies of Chinese families (to the 1990s). |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chinese -- West Indies -- History.
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Chinese. |
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West Indies. |
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History. |
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Immigrants -- West Indies -- History.
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Immigrants. |
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China -- Emigration and immigration.
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China. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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West Indies -- Emigration and immigration.
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West Indies -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Look Lai, Walton.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995. Kingston, Jamaica : Press, University of the West Indies, ©1998 9766400210 9789766400217 (DLC) 98194239 (OCoLC)39522228 |
| ISBN |
9781435694781 (electronic book) |
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1435694783 (electronic book) |
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9766400210 |
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9789766400217 |
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