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Coming to America A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life

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ISBN-10: 0060921005

ISBN-13: 9780060921002

Edition: 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: Roger Daniels

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With a timely new chapter on immigration in the current age of globalization, a new Preface, and new appendixes with the most recent statistics, this revised edition is an engrossing study of immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present.
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List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/30/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.11" wide x 8.11" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Historian Roger Daniels has written numerous books, mostly on immigration history and Japanese-American internment during World War II. He was past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the Immigration History Society. He served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and on the planning committee for the Immigration Museum on Ellis Island. He has also worked with the National Park Service on historic sites and as a historical consultant for many television programs. As a Fulbright Professor he taught at five universities in Europe and two universities in Canada. His last position was at…    

Tables, Charts, and Maps
Acknowledgments
Colonial America
Overseas Migration from Europe
English Immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England
Slavery and Immigrants from Africa
Other Europeans in Colonial America
Ethnicity and Race in American Life
The Century of Immigration (1820-1924)
Pioneers of the Century of Immigration: Irish, Germans, and Scandinavians
From the Mediterranean: Italians, Greeks, Arabs, and Armenians
Eastern Europeans: Poles, Jews, and Hungarians
Minorities from Other Regions: Chinese, Japanese, and French Canadians
The Triumph of Nativism
Modern Times
Migration in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1921-1945
From the New World: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans
Changing the Rules: Immigration Law, 1948-1980
The New Asian Immigrants
Caribbeans, Central Americans, and Soviet Jews
The 1980s and Beyond
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index