ISBN:
9780300265033
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (417 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.873
Keywords:
Immigrants--United States--History
;
United States--Emigration and immigration--History
;
United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History
Abstract:
A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Immigration: An American History -- 1. Founding Immigrants: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century America -- 2. Opening the Door to Europe's People -- 3. From Two Continents, Bound for Two Coasts, 1820-1882 -- 4. Americans React, Regulations Begin, 1820-1882 -- 5. The Masses Arrive as the Door Starts to Close, 1882-1921 -- 6. What Americans Said about the Immigrants, 1882-1921 -- 7. Closing the Gates: National Origins and the Great Depression -- 8. Newcomers and World War II -- 9. Prosperity, the Braceros, and Cold War Refugees, 1945-1965 -- 10. The Age of Reform: Braceros, Immigrants, and Refugees -- 11. A New Open Door: Immigration in the Twentieth Century's Last Decades -- 12. Immigration Politics and Restrictionism, 1970-2001 -- 13. The Era of Border Security: Immigration after 9/11 -- EPILOGUE: Past, Present, Future -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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