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Seattle from the Margins

Megan Asaka
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      From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive economy of the Pacific Northwest. Though the city benefitted from this mobile labor force—consisting largely of Indigenous peoples and Asian migrants—municipal authorities, elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the spaces they inhabited as troublesome and as impediments to urban progress. Today the physical landscape bears little evidence of their historical presence in the city. Tracing histories from unheralded sites such as labor camps, lumber towns, lodging houses, and so-called slums, Seattle from the Margins shows how migrant laborers worked alongside each other, competed over jobs, and forged unexpected alliances within the marine and coastal spaces of the Puget Sound. By uncovering the historical presence of marginalized groups and asserting their significance in the development of the city, Megan Asaka offers a deeper understanding of Seattle's complex past.Seattle from the Margins was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture’s Heritage Program.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Megan Asaka EAN: 9780295751863 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 363 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Washington Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-12-13 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      US Pacific Northwest, Relating to Asian American / Pacific Islander American people, Relating to Native American people, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, History of the Americas, Local history

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      Megan Asaka is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside.
      From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive economy of the Pacific Northwest. Though the city benefitted from this mobile labor force—consisting largely of Indigenous peoples and Asian migrants—municipal authorities, elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the spaces they inhabited as troublesome and as impediments to urban progress. Today the physical landscape bears little evidence of their historical presence in the city. Tracing histories from unheralded sites such as labor camps, lumber towns, lodging houses, and so-called slums, Seattle from the Margins shows how migrant laborers worked alongside each other, competed over jobs, and forged unexpected alliances within the marine and coastal spaces of the Puget Sound. By uncovering the historical presence of marginalized groups and asserting their significance in the development of the city, Megan Asaka offers a deeper understanding of Seattle's complex past.Seattle from the Margins was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture’s Heritage Program.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Megan Asaka EAN: 9780295751863 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 363 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Washington Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-12-13 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      US Pacific Northwest, Relating to Asian American / Pacific Islander American people, Relating to Native American people, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, History of the Americas, Local history

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      Megan Asaka is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside.

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