Format:
Book
Author:
Daniels, Roger.
Title:
Coming to America : a history of immigration and ethnicity in American life / Roger Daniels.
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Perennial, 2002.
Description:
xii, 515 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
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.
Subjects:
Ethnology -- United States -- History.
Minorities -- United States -- History.
Immigrants -- United States -- History.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-491) and index.
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 times. Migration in prosperity, depression, and war, 1921-1945 ; From the New World: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans ; Changing the rules: immigration law, 1948-1980 ; The new Asian immigrants ; Caribbeans, Central Americans, and Soviet Jews ; The 1980s and beyond ; Immigration and the age of globalization.
LCCN:
2002072436
ISBN:
006050577X
9780060505776
Other Number:
50930977
System Availability:
3
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
2447742
Call Number:
305.8/00973
Course Reserves:
0
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3