num_pages: 344
description: The Uprooted is a rare book, combining powerful feeling and long-time study to give us the shape and the feel of the immigrant experience rather than just the facts. It elucidates the hopes and the yearnings of the immigrants that propelled them out of their native environments to chance the hazards of the New World. It traces the profound imprint they made upon this world and how they, in turn, were changed by it.When first published, The Uprooted won the Pulitzer Prize for history. This second edition is enlarged by a supplemental chapter, in which the author examines the meaning of the immigrant experience in light of more recent decades, and by a brilliant bibliographic essay.
language: English
title: The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People
titlecomplete: The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People
genres: Sociology, 20th Century, American, History, American History, 19th Century, College, The United States Of America, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 226
awards: awardedAt: -568051200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History, awardedAt: -568051200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Little, Brown and Company