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A Companion to American Immigration

ISBN: 978-1-444-33883-6

March 2011

Wiley-Blackwell

582 pages

Description
A Companion to American Immigration is an authoritative collection of original essays by leading scholars on the major topics and themes underlying American immigration history.
  • Focuses on the two most important periods in American Immigration history: the Industrial Revolution (1820-1930) and the Globalizing Era (Cold War to the present)
  • Provides an in-depth treatment of central themes, including economic circumstances, acculturation, social mobility, and assimilation
  • Includes an introductory essay by the volume editor.
About the Author
Reed Ueda is Professor of History at Tufts University. He is the author of Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History (1994).
Features

  • Collects original essays by first-rate scholars on the major topics and themes underlying American Immigration history

  • Focuses on the two most important periods in American Immigration history: the Industrial Revolution (1820-1930) and the Globalizing Era (Cold War to the present)

  • Provides an in-depth treatment of central themes, including economic circumstances, acculturation, social mobility, and assimilation

  • Includes an introductory essay by the volume editor.