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
The 100 Greatest Southeast Asian History and Politics Books list has a focus on politics and imperialism in the region.
Indian and Chinese immigration into the Caribbean region is intimately bound up with the fortunes of the regional sugar industry, the elements of which by the mid-19th century were at various different stages of development. All had been affected by the British abolition of the slave trade in ...
In the late 19th century, the far northeastern corner of China’s great land mass was referred to by Westerners as Manchuria and by Japanese as Manshū. To the Qing imperial court in Peking, the region was an ancestral homeland and, accord...
Chinese women, shopkeepers' wives, in San Francisco, mid-19th century. Chinese women were perceived as a particular type of threat: A sexual one. “They were stereotyped as promiscuous, as prostitutes,” says Borja. While there were Chinese womenworking in the sex industryin the mid-19thcentu...
conquest, such as the Chicanos and those of the Puerto Rican populations, colonized by the United States at the turn of the century” (p. 8). Furthermore, the term “Latino” emerged in the 19th century as a shortening of the term “Latinoamerico,” or Latin America, for occupants of...
Perceptions in the 19th century that Chinese immigrants were the source of diseases like smallpox, leprosy and malaria, played a role in the act's passage, Jeung said, as did fears they were taking away jobs from white workers. At the time, many Chinese were out of work after helping in...
The rare instance of a musical thriller, this chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged ...
much as it stays the same. Navigating through their old haunts, a traditional marriage, sexual experimentation, a trouble-making bridesmaid, and their own dead hurts, the four friends are forced to examine the people they were, are, and want to be in the six nights preceding one beautiful ...
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...