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

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

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps 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? Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Abalone fisheries -- California -- History Abalones -- California Fishers -- California -- History Chinese Americans -- California -- History Black abalone -- California -- Channel Islands -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. Abalone fisheries Abalones Antiquities Black abalone Chinese Americans Emigration and immigration Fishers SUBJECT China -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century Channel Islands (Calif.) -- Antiquities Channel Islands (Calif.) -- History Subject California California -- Channel Islands China Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781607814979 1607814978

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