Download or read book Dictionary of American Immigration History written by Francesco Cordasco and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impressive compilation of facts and data on the history of American immigration...In an area where reference works are scarce, Cordasco, a recognized scholar in his field, has produced a good source for any library in need of ready reference information on American immigration. --LIBRARY JOURNAL
Download or read book Coming to America written by Roger Daniels and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our generation’s best historical accounts of immigration in the United States from the earliest colonial days “From almost every corner of the globe, in numbers great and small, America has drawn people whose contributions are as varied as their origins. Historians have spent much of the last generation investigating the separate pieces of that great story. Historian Roger Daniels has crafted a work that does justice to the whole.” — San Francisco Chronicle Former professor Roger Daniels does his utmost to capture the history of immigration to America as accurately as possible in this definitive account of one of the most pressing and layered social issues of our time. With chapters that include statistics, maps, and charts to help us visualize the change taking place in the age of globalization, this is a fascinating read for both the student studying immigration patterns and the general reader who wishes to be more well-informed from a quantitative perspective. Daniels places more recent cases of migration in the Americas within the rich history of the continents pre-colonialism. This invaluable resource is filled with maps and charts designed to help the reader see patterns that surface when studying the movement of peoples over time.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of North American Immigration written by John Powell and published by New York : Facts On File. This book was released on 2005 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on a variety of themes, events, people, places, and legislation related to immigration throughout history.
Download or read book Dictionary of Asian American History written by Hyung-chan Kim and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986-12 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative volume with nearly 800 entries that review the key facts of Asian-American and Pacific-American history. The principal focus is the individual and organized experience of major Asian groups. Other entries include court cases, immigration laws, events, treaties, and terms. A supplement offers thematic essays by scholars. The first seven deal with the historical development of Asian-Pacific immigration. The rest examine the place of Asians in the American social order. Appendices include a chronology of Asian-American history (1820-1985) and an extensive list of monographs excluding government documents. ISBN 0-313-23760-3 : $65.00 (For use only in the library).
Download or read book City of Dreams written by Tyler Anbinder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By an acclaimed historian, a sweeping history of the peoples who have come to New York for four centuries: a defining American story of millions of immigrants, hundreds of languages, and one great city. New York has been America’s city of immigrants for nearly four centuries. Growing from Peter Minuit’s tiny settlement of 1626 to a clamorous metropolis with more than three million immigrants today, the city has always been a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. City of Dreams is the long-overdue, inspiring, and defining account of New York’s immigrants, both famous and forgotten: the young man from the Caribbean who relocated to New York and became a founding father; Russian-born Emma Goldman, who condoned the murder of American industrialists as a means of aiding downtrodden workers; Dominican immigrant Oscar de la Renta, who dressed first ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama. Over ten years in the making, Tyler Anbinder’s story is one of innovators and artists, revolutionaries and rioters, staggering deprivation and soaring triumphs. In so many ways, today’s immigrants are just like those who came to America in centuries past—and their stories have never before been told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit. "Told brilliantly, even unforgettably...An American story, one that belongs to all of us."—Boston Globe “A richly textured guide to the history of our immigrant nation’s pinnacle immigrant city has managed to enter the stage during an election season that has resurrected this historically fraught topic in all its fierceness.”—New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Legislative History of American Immigration Policy 1798 1965 written by E. P. HUTCHINSON and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Immigration Policies written by Marion Tinsley Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Immigration written by Maldwyn Allen Jones and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1960 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration, writes Maldwyn Allen Jones, was America's historic raison d'être. Reminding us that the history of immigration to the United States is also the history of emigration from somewhere else, Mr. Jones considers the forces that uprooted emigrants from their homes in different parts of the world and analyzes the social, economic, and psychological adjustments that American life demanded of them--adjustments essentially the same for the Jamestown settlers and for Vietnamese refugees. As well as measuring the impact of America on the lives of the sixty million or so immigrants who have arrived since 1607, he assesses their role in industrialization, the westward movement, labor organization, politics, foreign policy, the growth of American nationalism, and the theory and practice of democracy. In this new edition, Jones brings his history of immigration to the United States up to 1990. His new chapter covers the major changes in immigration patterns caused by changes in legislation, such as the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. "It is done with a grasp of regional, chronological, national and racial information, plus that 'feel' for the situation which can come only from the vast resources and a gift for interpretation."--A. T. DeGroot, Christian Century "A scholarly contribution, based on a thorough mastery of the subject."--Carl Wittke, Journal of Southern Historynbsp;
Download or read book Dictionary of Races Or Peoples written by US Immigration Commission and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era written by Catherine Cocks and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Progressive Era, the period in the United States between 1898 and 1917, was a time of great social, political, and industrial change. Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, an event that signaled the emergence of the United States as a great power, the country soon was involved in its first overseas guerrilla war, in the Philippines. Vast changes in communications and transportation, immigration and migration patterns, social mores, gender roles, family structure, class structure, work patterns, business methods, education, intellectual life, religion, the professions, technology, science, medicine, and much else were transforming the scope and feel of people's lives and relationships. In many ways what happened in this era set the agenda for the rest of the 20th century. The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era is the most comprehensive and coherent reference work on the Progressive Era. Through its chronology, introductory essay, bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the key events, people, organizations, and ideas of the period, this resource is a lively, complete, and accessible overview of this significant era.
Download or read book Immigration and American Unionism written by Vernon M. Briggs, Jr. and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2000 the AFL-CIO announced a historic change in its position on immigration. Reversing a decades-old stance by labor, the federation declared that it would no longer press to reduce high immigration levels or call for rigorous enforcement of immigration laws. Instead, it now supports the repeal of sanctions imposed against employers who hire illegal immigrants as well as a general amnesty for most such workers. In this timely book, Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., challenges labor's recent about-face, charting the disastrous effects that immigration has had on union membership over the course of U.S. history.Briggs explores the close relationship between immigration and employment trends beginning in the 1780s. Combining the history of labor and of immigration in a new and innovative way, he establishes that over time unionism has thrived when the numbers of newcomers have decreased, and faltered when those figures have risen.Briggs argues convincingly that the labor movement cannot be revived unless the following steps are taken: immigration levels are reduced, admission categories changed, labor law reformed, and the enforcement of labor protection standards at the worksite enhanced. The survival of American unionism, he asserts, does not rest with the movement's becoming a partner of the pro-immigration lobby. For to do so, organized labor would have to abandon its legacy as the champion of the American worker.
Download or read book Postwar Immigrant America written by Reed Ueda and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postwar Immigrant America examines the changing patterns of immigration to the United States since World War II, providing a synthesis of elements often scattered in interpretive and documentary works. An introduction summarizes the history of immigration to the United States before World War II, and the six chapters that follow discuss major themes such as the development of immigration patterns, the changes in American immigration and naturalization policies, and the image of the "melting pot" versus the concept of pluralism. Charts, tables, maps, boxes featuring the human element in immigration, a chronology of immigration policy, and an index are also included.
Download or read book American Immigration written by Maldwyn Allen Jones and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Immigration A Very Short Introduction written by David A. Gerber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of immigration. Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes--conquest, colonialism, the slave trade, territorial acquisition, and voluntary immigration. In this Very Short Introduction, historian David A. Gerber captures the histories of dozens of American ethnic groups over more than two centuries and reveals how American life has been formed in significant ways by immigration. He discusses the relationships between race and ethnicity in the life of these groups and in the formation of American society, as well as explaining how immigration policy and legislation have helped to form those relationships. Moreover, by highlighting the parallels that contemporary patterns of immigration and resettlement share with those of the past - which Americans now generally regard as having had positive outcomes - the book offers an optimistic portrait of current immigration that is at odds with much present-day opinion. Newly updated, this book speaks directly to the ongoing fears of immigration that have fueled the debate about both illegal immigration and the need for stronger immigration laws and a border wall.
Download or read book Dictionary of American History Contributors learning guide and index written by Stanley I. Kutler and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Immigrant in American History written by Marcus Lee Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of New Hampshire written by Jeremy Belknap and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
