Greenwood Publishing Group : Immigration at the Golden Gate

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Angel Island, the largest island in San Francisco Bay, lies just inside the Golden Gate in a setting of extraordinary natural beauty. Today the entire island is a State Park, its tranquility seemingly incompatible with the throb of activity of a hundred years ago, or with the neglect it suffered in the mid-twentieth century. A century ago the island hummed with the comings and goings of soldiers at its several Army installations. In a secluded corner of the Island, the Immigration Station, the smallest of these government operations, sat in judgment on all who would enter America through the City by the Bay.

Reviews:

-"Robert Barde examines the history of Asian passenger steamship travel and Chinese and Japanese immigration through San Francisco and the federal immigration station on Angel Island. . . . Immigration at the Golden Gate offers wonderfully detailed portraits of some of the immigrants, immigration officials, and steamships that made Angel Island such a significant part of American immigration history. It joins a number of recent monographs that have paid increasing attention to the politics and logistics of immigration and immigration law enforcement at our nation's borders in the past and the present. Barde. . . is a wonderful storyteller, and the book's research is impressive. . . . There is much valubale new information in Immigration at the Golden Gate, and Barde does an excellent job of bringing long-forgotten people like Quok Shee and John Birge Sawyer to life in order to shed light on this important chapter in American immigration history." —Journal of Economic History

About the Author

Robert Eric Barde is Deputy Director and Academic Coordinator of the Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of nearly three dozen articles in immigration history and the social sciences and has written for numerous award-winning programs on TVOntario.

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0-313-34782-4 978-0-313-34782-5	Immigration at the Golden Gate	$49.95
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