Screen LibraryComing to America : a history of immigration and ethnicity in American life /
With a timely new chapter on immigration in the current age of globalization, a new Preface, and new appendixes with the most recent statistics, this revised edition is an engrossing study of immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present. Annotation. With a timely new chapter...
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Perennial,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2002. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Summary: |
With a timely new chapter on immigration in the current age of globalization, a new Preface, and new appendixes with the most recent statistics, this revised edition is an engrossing study of immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present. Annotation. With a timely new chapter on immigration in the current age of globalization, a new Preface, and new appendixes with the most recent statistics, this revised edition is an engrossing study of immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 515 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-491) and index. |
| ISBN: |
006050577X : 9780060505776 |
| Index Number: | E184 |
| CLC: |
D771.262-09 D771.238-09 |
| Call Number: | D771.238-09/D186/2nd ed. |
| Contents: | pt. I. Colonial America. Overseas migration from Europe ; English immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England ; Slavery and immigrants from Africa ; Other Europeans in Colonial America ; Ethnicity and race in American life. -- pt. II. The century of immigration (1820-1924) Pioneers of the century of immigration: Irish, Germans, and Scandinavians ; From the Mediterranean: Italians, Greeks, Arabs, and Armenians ; Eastern Europeans: Poles, Jews, and Hungarians ; Minorities from other regions: Chinese, Japanese, and French Canadians ; The triumph of nativism. -- pt. III. Modern ti |