Major problems in American immigration and ethnic history
Subtitle: documents and essays
By: edited by Jon Gjerde.
Contributors: Gjerde, Jon, 1953-
Series: Major problems in American history series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
Subjects: Immigrants -- United States -- History -- Sources; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Sources; United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- Sources
Notes: Contains bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Approaches to American immigration and ethnic history; title: Strangers in the realm, migrants to British colonial North America, 1609-1785; title: Nation and citizenship in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1800; title: European migration and the radical attempt to conserve, 1830-1880; title: Nativism and becoming American at midcentury, 1830-1860; title: Emigration and return, migration patterns in the Industrial Age, 1850-1920; title: Industrial immigrants in the city and in the countryside, 1880-1920; title: Women immigrants; title: Racialization of immigrants, 1880-1928; title: Responses to immigration, exclusion, restriction, and Americanization, 1880-1924; title: Immigrant and ethnic life in twentieth-century America, 1924-1965; title: Immigrants and ethnics amid depression and war, 1929-1965; title: Immigration and ethnicity in the post-industrial world, 1965 to the present; title: Immigration transforms America, 1965 to the present.