ebooks Shades of Green: Irish Regiments; American Soldiers; and Local Communities in the Civil War Era (The North's Civil War) by Ryan W. Keating in History

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On January 13; 1903; the first Korean immigrants arrived in Hawai'i. Numbering a little more than a hundred individuals; this group represented the initial wave of organized Korean immigration to Hawai'i. Over the next two and a half years; nearly 7;500 Koreans would make the long journey eastward across the Pacific. Most were single men contracted to augment (and; in many cases; to offset) the large numbers of existing Chinese and Japanese plantation workers.Although much has been written about early Chinese and Japanese laborers in Hawai'i; until now no comprehensive work had been published on first-generation Korean immigrants; the ilse. Making extensive use of primary source material from Korea; Japan; the continental U.S.; and Hawai'i; Wayne Patterson weaves a compelling social history of the Korean experience in Hawai'i from 1903 to 1973 as seen primarily through the eyes of the ilse. Japanese surveillance records; student journals; and U.S. intelligence reports--many of which were uncovered by the author--provide an "inner history" of the Korean community. Chapter topics include plantation labor; Christian mission work; the move from the plantation to the city; picture prides; relations with the Japanese government; interaction with other ethnic groups; intergenerational conflict; the World War II experience; and the postwar years.The Ilse is an impressive and much-needed contribution to Korean American and Hawai'i history and significantly advances our knowledge of the East Asian immigrant experience in the United States.