Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration
- ISBN-10
- 0231143370
- ISBN-13
- 9780231143370
- Series
- Ethnic Americans
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Authors
- David M. Reimers, Leonard Dinnerstein
Description
"Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers begin with a brief overview of immigration during the colonial and early national eras (1492 to the 1820s), focusing primarily on the arrival of English Protestants, while at the same time stressing the diversity brought by Dutch, French, Spanish, and other small groups, including "free people of color" from the Caribbean. Next they follow large-scale European immigration from 1830 to the 1880s. Catholicism became a major force in America during this period, with immigrants - five million in the 1880s alone - creating a new mosaic in every state of the Union. This section also touches on the arrival, beginning in 1848, of Chinese immigrants and other groups who hoped to find gold and get rich. Subsequent chapters address eastern and southern European immigration from 1890 to 1940; newcomers from the Western Hemisphere and Asia who arrived from 1840 to 1940; immigration restriction from 1875 to World War II; and the postwar arrival and --
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