KARUKA, Manu, Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad, University of California Press, Oakland, 2019, 297 pp.
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عنوان ژورنال: Historia Contemporánea
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2340-0277,1130-2402
DOI: 10.1387/hc.21628