Raising the Redwood Curtain
Labor Landscapes and Community Violence in a Pacific Littoral
Series: Studies in Pacific Worlds;
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date of Publication 1 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Cloth Over Boards
- ISBN 9781496220288
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages318 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 photographs, 1 appendix, index 700
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Long description:
Raising the Redwood Curtain explores how shifting land use practices and exploitative labor patterns spurred by the colonial settlement of the Pacific world influenced the genocide of California’s Native people, anti-Asian campaigns, and the oppression of eastern European immigrant workers. By carefully examining these local developments, it explores how global capitalism fundamentally reordered labor patterns and social relations.
By analyzing the history of three episodes of labor and racial violence in Humboldt County, California, Michael T. Karp spans nearly a century in a detailed examination of the causes and interconnections between the Indian Island massacre of 1860, the expulsion of Chinese and Japanese people from the county between 1885 and 1906, and the killing and persecution of eastern Europeans during the Great Lumber Strike of 1935.
Regional labor and land use patterns shaped these events, but so did global economic developments and environmental change, connecting disparate acts of racial violence across time. By bringing together new scholarship on the American West, environmental history, and the Pacific world, Michael T. Karp illustrates the importance of considering communities on the periphery to better understand the violence that defined the colonial settlement of North America.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Indigenous Workscapes
2. Forced Labor and Livestock
3. Surviving Genocide
4. Redwood Migrations and the Pacific Economy
5. The Redwood Workscape
6. Forging a White Settler Community
7. The Final Purge and a Failed Strike
8. Progressives and Paternalists Unite
9. Cleansing the New Outsiders
Conclusion: From Tuluwat to Gunther Island and Back
Appendix: Statistics Related to Redwood Production and Consumption
Notes
Bibliography
Index
