In the Sea of Sterile Mountains; The Chinese in British Columbia
by Morton, James
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0888940521
- ISBN 13
- 9780888940520
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Vancouver: J.J. Douglas Ltd. [0-88894-052-1] 1973. (Hardcover) 280pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Tables, photographs, chronology, index. The dust jacket is slightly darkened at the spine and price-clipped. "The parade, five blocks long, turned down Granville Street, the bands playing 'Rule Britannia' and 'The Maple Leaf Forever,' the crowds singing happily along with them. But look at the banners waving unsteadily above their heads: 'Asiatic Exclusion League - Stand for a White Canada'; 'White Canada - patronize your own race and Canada.' This was the scene in Vancouver on a September evening in 1907". Time Period 1900's & 19th Century. Locale: British Columbia-Canada; Canada; Vancouver--British Columbia; Western Canada. (Western Canada, Chinese Canadians, Politics, Race Relations, Racism).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 152460
- Title
- In the Sea of Sterile Mountains; The Chinese in British Columbia
- Author
- Morton, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0888940521
- ISBN 13
- 9780888940520
- Publisher
- J.J. Douglas Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- This edition first published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Western Canada, Chinese Canadians, Politics, Race Relations, Racism
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- CANADIAN HISTORY;
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