The Page Act of 1875 Enacted seven years before the better-knownChinese Exclusion Act, the 1875 Page Act was one of the earliest pieces of federal legislation to restrict immigration to the United States in the 19th century. “It was designed to prohibit immigrants deemed ‘undesirable’—defined...
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The first Asians arrived in Texas in two distinct waves during the latter half of the nineteenth century: first, in 1870 as laborers with the Houston and Texas
In the last century, rice production has been greatly increased twice by use of dwarfing and hybrid breeding [3]. However, the yield growth has been accounted for partly by excessive use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and water resources, leading to ecological and environmental problems [4...
What was the purpose of Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization program in the USSR? Khrushchev had multiple purposes during his de-Stalinization program. One was to open up the country to more freedom of the press. Another was to release prisoners held in the Gulags or forced labor camps. Wha...
In short, what next for the Asian Century? US Reboots Post-war Asia In the aftermath of World War 2 and the Korean War, the US planted the seeds for an "Asian Century" being realized in the twenty-first century. It remade its arch-enemy Japan into a democracy with a pacifist ...
Asian immigrants have come to American shores since the mid-1800s, playing a significant role in U.S. history, but one that’s rife with inequity and exclusion. See a timeline of key events. How American Chinatowns Emerged Amid 19th-Century Racism ...
Age Yayoi 弥生period (1000 BC – AD 250), they never really ‘took off’ in the Japanese context; and second, that while horses and cattle were added from the fifth century AD, religious and other cultural proscriptions limited the consumption of meat until Westernisation in the nineteenth...
The 100 Greatest Southeast Asian History and Politics Books list has a focus on politics and imperialism in the region.
However, as shown in the 19th century's coal market of England (and to a certain extent, the present day) (Alcott, 2005; Sorrell, 2009; Ceddia and Zepharovich, 2017), the decrease in energy costs due to energy efficiency and overall economic development can actually increase energy ...