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What is A Pictorial History of Immigration about?

344 pages : 29 cm Traces the course of immigration to America and discusses its impact on the nation's historical and cultural development Includes bibliographical references and index From the beginning to 1820 -- Even the Indians were newcomers -- The Old World spreads out -- The English heritage -- The varied breeds of new men -- The Spaniards and French on the frontiers -- Immigrants in bondage -- The Revolution and American nationality -- Peasants in a New World (1820-1880) -- Land of liberty -- The destruction of peasant life -- Crossing by sail -- The exodus from Ireland -- The Germans -- From the North -- The Chinese -- The frontiers of farm and city -- The Civil War and its aftermath -- The Great Migration (1880-1930) -- Old streams in new channels -- The East European Jews -- The Italians -- The Slavic peoples -- Out of the old Ottoman Empire -- From across the borders -- The Japanese and other orientals -- The prairie and the metropolis -- Closing the gates -- The refugees (1930-present) -- War and totalitarianism -- Fugitives from dictatorship -- Postwar migration -- Immigrant contributions

Author

Oscar Handlin, 1915-2011

Publisher

New York: Crown Publishers

Published

1972

Language

EN