Daniel A. Métraux

The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm and the Creation of Japanese America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm, founded in California by refugees of the 1868 Boshin War as the first Japanese settlement in the United States. The author analyzes how the farm played a critical role in expanding agriculture in the state and how it paved the way for tens of thousands of Japanese immigrants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781498585408
• ISBN-10: 149858540X
• Artikelnr.: 63302451

Autorenporträt

Daniel A. Métraux is professor emeritus and adjunct professor of Asian studies at Mary Baldwin University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Amy S. Miller
Chapter 1: National Tension That Brought on the Boshin War in Japan
Chapter 2: John Henry Schnell's Service to the Aizu Han and His Decision to
Move to California
Chapter 3: Japanese Immigration to the United States
Chapter 4: The Founding of the Wakamatsu Tea & Silk Colony Farm
Chapter 5: The Wakamatsu Dream: A Diverse and Flourishing Agricultural
Community
Chapter 6: The Last Days of the Wakamatsu Colony
Chapter 7: The Creation of the Legendary Okei-san
Chapter 8: Wakamatsu as a Pilgrimage Site
Chapter 9: What Happened to the Japanese Colonists?
Afterword by Michele Lobach