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

Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
ISBN-10
0060160985
ISBN-13
9780060160982
Series
Coming to America
Category
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Pages
450
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Author
Roger Daniels

Description

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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