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The great departure : mass migration from eastern Europe and the making of the free world /

A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigratio...

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Main Author:	Zahra, Tara (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Europe, Eastern > Emigration and immigration > History. America > Emigration and immigration > History. East Europeans > Migrations > History. East Europeans > America > History. Immigrants > America > History.

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