Basque Immigrants and Nevada''s Sheep Industry - Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954

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.

About the author

Iker Saitua is a Basque Country native and professor of economic history at the University of Basque Country in Leioa, Spain.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Iker Saitua
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781948908016
• ISBN: 978-1-948908-01-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Basque; The Basque Series; Basque; The Basque Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous