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A pictorial history of immigration / Oscar Handlin.
- Title
- A pictorial history of immigration / Oscar Handlin.
- Author
- Handlin, Oscar, 1915-2011.
- Publication
- New York : Crown Publishers, [1972]
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- 344 p. : ill., maps, ports., facs.; 29 cm.
- Summary
- Traces the course of immigration to America and discusses its impact on the nation's historical and cultural development.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- LCCN
- 74185101
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries