Basque

Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954

By: Iker Saitua

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Hardcover | 20 March 2019

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This book contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of the Basque immigration in the western sheep industry with a historically refreshed perspective. It contributes to the existing new historiography of the American West by looking more critically at the Basque immigrant experience in the open-range sheep industry of Nevada. It deconstructs the essentialist view that attributed to Basques special sheepherding skills by exploring this immigrant experience within its economic, social, cultural, political, and international context. This book is targeted to an academic, student and wider audience interested in the Modern American West and Basque Studies.

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"This is a story that is simultaneously transnational and intensely local. Historians of the American West are deeply indebted to this fine young historian."- Steven M. Avella, professor of history, Marquette University, Milwaukee
"Iker Saiatua provides a fresh perspective on the story of Basque migration to the American West. His painstaking research uncovers new source material and applies current race and labor historiography, while personal anecdotes tie it all together."
- John Bieter, author of An Enduring Legacy: The Story of Basques in Idaho

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