| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 375 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-355) and index. |
| Summary |
A community of sugar cane workers from Japan strike for a wage increase in 1920 Oahu, straining relations between Japan and the United States, underscoring racial tensions between Japanese labor and the American sugar industry, and leading to the passage of the Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924. |
| Contents |
Prologue: a dynamite bomb explodes -- Japanese village in the Pacific -- A person to be watched -- Oahu strike begins -- Japanese conspiracy -- Conspiracy trial -- Reopening Chinese immigration -- Japanese Exclusion Act. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Strikes and lockouts -- Hawaii -- Oahu -- History.
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Strikes and lockouts. |
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Hawaii -- Oahu. |
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History. |
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Noncitizens -- Hawaii -- Oahu -- History.
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Noncitizens. |
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Japanese -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Hawaii -- Oahu -- History.
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Japanese -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Japanese. |
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Emigration and immigration law -- United States -- History.
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Emigration and immigration law. |
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United States. |
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Oahu (Hawaii) -- Social conditions.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan.
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International relations. |
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Japan. |
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Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Nihon no inbō. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99012114
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Duus, Masayo, 1938- Nihon no inbō. English. Japanese conspiracy. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999 0520204840 (DLC) 99017701 (OCoLC)40820976 |
| ISBN |
9780520917675 (electronic book) |
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0520917677 (electronic book) |
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0585331197 (electronic book) |
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9780585331195 (electronic book) |
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0520204840 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520204843 (alkaline paper) |
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0520204859 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520204850 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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