TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tsu,Cecilia M.
TI  - Garden of the world: Asian immigrants and the making of agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley 
SN  - 9780199344987 (ebook) :
AV  - F868.S25 T78 2013
U1  - 338.108995079473 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Asian Americans
KW  - California
KW  - Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
KW  - History
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Fruit trade
KW  - Fruit growers
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil. Virtually all farms were owned by whites, but the soil was largely worked by Asian immigrants. In this book, Cecilia Tsu tells the overlooked and intertwined histories of the land of the Santa Clara Valley and the Asian immigrants who cultivated it
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199734771.001.0001
ER  -