Research Catalog

Title

Shellfish for the celestial empire : the rise and fall of commercial abalone fishing in California / Todd J. Braje.

Author

Braje, Todd J., 1976-

Publication

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2016]

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Description

xiv, 242 pages : maps, illustrations; 23 cm

Alternative Title

Rise and fall of commercial abalone fishing in California

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Abalone fisheries > California > History
• Abalones > California
• Fishers > California > History
• Chinese Americans > California > History
• Black abalone > Channel Islands > History
• Abalone fisheries
• Abalones
• Antiquities
• Black abalone
• Chinese Americans
• Emigration and immigration
• Fishers
• China > History > 19th century
• Channel Islands (Calif.) > Antiquities
• Channel Islands (Calif.) > History
• California
• California > Channel Islands
• China

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Fish and fisheries in southern California: a history of collapse -- Of anchors, admirals, and artifice: the Chinese before Columbus? -- Chinese history and the exodus to Gold Mountain -- Chinese immigrants in the wild west -- The archaeology of Chinese abalone fishing in southern California -- Nineteenth-century abalone fishing on California's Channel Islands: the archaeology of California's Channel Islands: The archaeology of Johnsons Lee and Point Bennett -- A march toward exclusion: twilight of the Chinese abalone fishery -- An enduring legacy?.

ISBN

• 9781607814962
• 160781496X
• 9781607814979 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016005205

OCLC

937368147

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library