This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

Okubo Toshimichi: The Bismarck of Japan (Publications of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Iwata, Masakazu

Leaders & Notable People

University of California Press

Planted in good soil: A history of the Issei in the United States agriculture (American university studies)

History

Asia

P. lang

Planted in Good Soil: The History of the Issei in United States Agriculture, Volume Two (American University Studies)

Peter Lang

The Association for Asian American Studies has awarded Masakazu Iwata the 1993 National Book Award for Lifetime Scholarship for this book. Based upon numerous interviews on site as well as English and Japanese documents, the book is a narrative history of the Japanese migrants and, specifically, their experiences as immigrants to the continental United States in the late 19th and the 20th centuries. The focus is upon the Issei, the first generation Japanese in America, who upon arrival entered the fishing, timber, mining, and railroad industries in the American West but shortly left the ranks of labor to become independent farm operators, mainly in the various states west of the Missouri River. It broadly delineates the socio-economic milieu of the times and depicts the arduous, agonizing ascendancy of the Issei up the agricultural ladder in the various regions of settlement, while dealing with their successes and failures as well as general contributions made in their adopted land prior to 1941.

Planted in Good Soil: A History of the Issei in United States Agriculture (American University Studies)

Americas

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

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