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Asian Refugees in America

Narratives of Escape and Adaptation

By: Eleanor Herz Swent

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Asian Refugees in America

Narratives of Escape and Adaptation

By: Eleanor Herz Swent

When Eleanor Swent began teaching English as a Second Language in 1967 at a school for adults in Oakland, California, she soon learned that many of the Asian immigrants in her classes had remarkable tales to tell of struggles in their homelands and their efforts to make new lives in America. This oral history, based on interviews Swent conducted with her students over thirty years, documents the Asian immigrant experience as never before. Here are the stories of desperate individuals who swam to escape from China to Macao and Hong Kong; of Chinese daughters considered worthless by their families; of political refugees from Vietnam; of ethnic Chinese who fled by boat from Vietnam; of refugees from the genocide in Cambodia. As these remarkable new Americans learn different words and customs, they also enlarge our national vision, enriching our culture while assuring us that human dignity can rise above terrible circumstances.

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McFarland

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0786486325

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9780786486328

One Shot for Gold

Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California

By: Eleanor Herz Swent

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One Shot for Gold

Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California

By: Eleanor Herz Swent

Winner of the 2023 Clark Spence Award from the Mining History Association! An account of the creation of a modern, environmentally sensitive mine as told by the people who developed and worked it. In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California’s Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of California’s most productive gold mine in the twentieth century. Named the McLaughlin Mine, it produced about 3.4 million ounces of gold between 1985 and 2002. The mine was also one of the first attempts at creating a new full-scale mine in California after the advent of environmental regulations and the first to use autoclaves to extract gold from ore. One Shot for Gold traces the history of the McLaughlin Mine and how it transformed a community and an industry. This lively and detailed account is based largely on oral history interviews with a wide range of people associated with the mine, including Homestake executives, geologists, and engineers as well as local neighbors of the mine, officials from county governments, townspeople, and environmental activists. Their narratives— supported by thorough research into mining company documents, public records, newspaper accounts, and other materials—chronicle the mine from its very beginning to its eventual end and transformation into a designated nature reserve as part of the University of California Natural Reserve System. A mine created at the end of the twentieth century was vastly different from the mines of the Gold Rush. New regulations and concerns about the environmental, economic, and social impacts of a large mine in this remote and largely rural region of the state-required decisions at many levels. One Shot for Gold offers an engaging and accessible account of a modern gold mine and how it managed to exist in balance with the environment and the human community around it.

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University of Nevada Press

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1647790077

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Landing Uphill

Seven Years at San Luis

By: Eleanor Herz Swent

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Landing Uphill

Seven Years at San Luis

By: Eleanor Herz Swent

Award-winning historian Eleanor Swent writes about going as a young bride in 1947 to a remote silver mine in Tayoltita, Mexico, landing in the mountains inland from Mazatlan, in a canyon with a tilted landing strip. Drawing primarily from letters to family and friends, she recounts the challenges and rich rewards of life in a Mexico unseen by most visitors — a Mexico of deep personal connections across cultures and generations. She weaves together her letters and later recollections, her husband’s oral history from UC-Berkeley, other first-person accounts, and historical documents to present a history of silver mining in Mexico, early Spanish settlement of California, and her own experience as a newcomer. She describes operations at the three mines where her husband works, and her visits to them: San Luis, Santa Rita, and Contra Estaca, accessible only by riding a mule for several hours. Eleanor grew up in Lead, South Dakota, home of the Homestake gold mine. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees (from Wellesley College and Denver University) did not prepare her for life in Tayoltita, where she learns to speak Spanish, ride mules, and cook on a wood stove. She also discovers opportunities to serve her new community. The Mexican women envy her because she has only two children after five years of marriage. They trust her enough to ask her for information on family planning, and their husbands thank her for providing it. Some of her new friends descended from Spanish royal minister Don Jose Antonio Delaveaga de Gurruchategui, who arrived in the Guarisamay district before 1776. They welcome Eleanor‘s help with their food distribution to local poor people. Eleanor’s mining engineer husband, Langan Swent, grew up in Tayoltita, and was called “El Niño Americano,” the American boy. He graduated from Stanford University and studied at Harvard and UC-Berkeley before serving in the Navy in the Mediterranean theater during World War II, receiving the Presidential Medal of Honor. His father was the first manager of the San Luis mine when the Hearsts bought it from descendants of Don Jose Delaveaga. Langan’s mother was the first Anglo woman to live in Tayoltita. Some of Eleanor‘s story is deeply personal. When Langan is thrown from a horse and seriously injured, she fears for his life. She gives birth to two children in Oakland, California, and one in Denver, Colorado. Each time she enters the hospital alone and sends a telegram to Mexico notifying Langan of the birth. Securing passports, residence permits, and birth certificates is another hurdle. She returns to Mexico, grateful for her beautiful company house and garden and plentiful household help. After seven years, Langan is offered a new job, and they are torn between his professional opportunity and their love of Mexico. He accepts the job and they move to Lead, South Dakota, with mixed feelings. By turns scholarly and personal, but never overly sentimental, Landing Uphill offers unique insight into historical Mexico, mining history, and Eleanor Swent’s journey from her arrival in Mexico as a bride, knowing no Spanish, to her tearful departure, speaking fluently with Mexicans who will be life-long friends.

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Outskirts Press

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1977272924

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Asian Refugees in America

Narratives of Escape and Adaptation

By: Eleanor Herz Swent

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Narratives of Escape and Adaptation

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One Shot for Gold

Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California

By: Eleanor Herz Swent

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Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California

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University of Nevada Press

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Metallurgist for Newmont Mining Corporation and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1934-1982: Oral History Transcript / 1986-1987

By: Eleanor Swent,Plato Malozemoff,Frank Woods McQuiston

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Metallurgist for Newmont Mining Corporation and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1934-1982: Oral History Transcript / 1986-1987

By: Eleanor Swent,Plato Malozemoff,Frank Woods McQuiston

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Sagwan Press

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1376875071

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Ian and Catherine Campbell, Geologists: Teaching, Government Service, Editing: Oral History Transcript / 1988

By: Eleanor Swent,Catherine C. Campbell,Gordon B. Oakeshott

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Ian and Catherine Campbell, Geologists: Teaching, Government Service, Editing: Oral History Transcript / 1988

By: Eleanor Swent,Catherine C. Campbell,Gordon B. Oakeshott

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1376843862

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Market Analyst for Non-Ferrous Metals and Non-Metallic Minerals, Journalist, Mining Corporation Executive, 1927-1994: Oral History Transcript / 199

By: Eleanor Swent,Simon David Strauss,Charles F. Barber

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Market Analyst for Non-Ferrous Metals and Non-Metallic Minerals, Journalist, Mining Corporation Executive, 1927-1994: Oral History Transcript / 199

By: Eleanor Swent,Simon David Strauss,Charles F. Barber

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1376878739

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Eleanor and Harry

The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

A New York Times Notable Book, Eleanor and Harry sheds important light on the relationship between two giants of twentieth-century American history. While researching his previous book, Harry and Ike, Steve Neal came upon a trove of letters between President Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt that had never been published. At the time they were written, the former first lady was Truman's appointee to the UN delegation -- the highest-ranking woman in his administration. These letters, collected in Eleanor and Harry, reveal the extraordinary story of a deep, often stormy, and enduring friendship throughout one of the most important eras in American history. Eleanor and Harry grew up in different worlds. Truman, who had spent much of his youth on a Missouri farm, reflected the values and work ethic of rural America. Eleanor, born into New York society, was a constant advocate of reform. Despite their differences--and sometimes opposing political traditions-- they maintained a warm and sympathetic correspondence after Truman took office, and he designated Mrs. Roosevelt the First Lady of the World. In more than 250 letters, readers will discover Eleanor and Harry's discussion of the beginning of the Cold War, the rebuilding of postwar Europe, the creation of the state of Israel, and the start of the modern civil rights movement. Mrs. Roosevelt pressed Truman to give women more influence in his administration and declined to endorse his renomination in 1948, but she supported his difficult decision to drop the atomic bomb, his military intervention in Korea, and his controversial firing of General Douglas MacArthur. Though they disagreed on several occasions and Mrs. Roosevelt oftenoffered to resign from the UN delegation, Truman valued her advice too much to allow her to quit. They remained close friends until her death in 1962. Eleanor and Harry is an uncommonly personal look at some of the momentous events of the twentieth century and offers a rare, intimate insight into the challenging and enriching friendship between two great Americans.

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Citadel Press

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0806525614

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Letters to Eleanor

Voices of the Great Depression

By: Paul Bernstein,Eleanor Roosevelt

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Voices of the Great Depression

By: Paul Bernstein,Eleanor Roosevelt

Letters to Eleanor: Voices of the Great Depression examines how the flood of letters from ordinary Americans to the First Lady established a bond of hope and trust. Through this paper trail, Eleanor Roosevelt was able to help many petitioners find jobs, food, housing, and clothes. To others she offered the encouragement and support many needed in the bleak Thirties. Through it all Eleanor Roosevelt exhibited a tradionalist social outlook by her support of homemakers and opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. But as the New Deal matured, she became an ardent reformer who fought for an anti-lynching law and job opportunity for women in the federal service. But beneath her incessant activity to help others there was an inner Eleanor who constantly sought emotional support from female colleagues or her distant correspondents, a support she did not receive form FDR or her family.

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Asian Refugees in America

Asian Refugees in America

One Shot for Gold

One Shot for Gold

Landing Uphill

Landing Uphill

Asian Refugees in America

Asian Refugees in America

One Shot for Gold

One Shot for Gold

Metallurgist for Newmont Mining Corporation and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1934-1982: Oral History Transcript / 1986-1987

Metallurgist for Newmont Mining Corporation and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1934-1982: Oral History Transcript / 1986-1987

Ian and Catherine Campbell, Geologists: Teaching, Government Service, Editing: Oral History Transcript / 1988

Ian and Catherine Campbell, Geologists: Teaching, Government Service, Editing: Oral History Transcript / 1988

Market Analyst for Non-Ferrous Metals and Non-Metallic Minerals, Journalist, Mining Corporation Executive, 1927-1994: Oral History Transcript / 199

Market Analyst for Non-Ferrous Metals and Non-Metallic Minerals, Journalist, Mining Corporation Executive, 1927-1994: Oral History Transcript / 199

Eleanor and Harry

Eleanor and Harry

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