Description:
Raising the Redwood Curtain explores how settler colonialism and the expansion of capitalism promoted migrations across the Pacific, instances of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and labor struggles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Review Quotes:
"Raising the Redwood Curtain is a genuinely valuable contribution to the histories of Humboldt County, the Pacific World, and the extractive economies that connected them. Karp's archival research is impressive, his recovery of marginalized voices is admirable, and his instinct that this peripheral region was actually central to broader processes of global capitalism and environmental transformation is correct and important. The book will reward readers interested in California history; Pacific World history; and the intersections of labor, race, and environment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--Michael A. Hill, H-Environment