A companion to American immigration /
"A Companion to American Immigration" is an authoritative collection of original essays by leading scholars on the major topics and themes underlying American immigration history. The book focuses on the two most important periods in American history when immigration had its greatest impac...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2006.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to American history ;
15. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "A Companion to American Immigration" is an authoritative collection of original essays by leading scholars on the major topics and themes underlying American immigration history. The book focuses on the two most important periods in American history when immigration had its greatest impact on American society: the Industrial Revolution and the Globalizing Era from the post-World War II decades to the present. It explores immigration from a global and interdisciplinary perspective to show the variety of methods that scholars have recently used to supply new insights. The volume's structure and approach provide in-depth treatment of central themes, including economic conditions, public policies, demography, social structure, group identity, communal institutions, and cultural life. The book also places a key question in the foreground of the book: how immigrants of the industrializing era and the globalizing era can be studied with respect to a host of collective and common experiences that bridge historical periods. The comparative dimension is a defining feature of this volume, capturing the essence of America, and its rich history of immigration. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 570 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1405152206 9781405152204 9780631228431 0631228438 9781405165655 1405165650 9780470997116 0470997117 1280285680 9781280285684 |