Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry

Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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This book contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of the Basque immigration in the western sheep industry with a historically refreshed perspective. It contributes to the existing new historiography of the American West by looking more critically at the Basque immigrant experience in the open-range sheep industry of Nevada.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-03-20
Mått160 x 231 x 27 mm
Vikt650 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBasque Series
Antal sidor312
FörlagUniversity of Nevada Press
ISBN9781948908016

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Iker Saitua is a Basque Government Postdocroral Fellow in History at the University of California, Riverside and the University of the Basque Country(UPV/EHU). As a native of the Basque Country and a historian of the Basque Country and United States, he specializes in the American West, the history of capitalism and commodities, environmental history, migration and labor history. He lives in Riverside, California.

"This is a story that is simultaneously transnational and intensely local. Historians of the American West are deeply indebted to this fine young historian."— Steven M. Avella, professor of history, Marquette University, Milwaukee"Iker Saiatua provides a fresh perspective on the story of Basque migration to the American West. His painstaking research uncovers new source material and applies current race and labor historiography, while personal anecdotes tie it all together."— John Bieter, author of An Enduring Legacy: The Story of Basques in Idaho