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UNINA9910820198603321 |
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Autore |
Reimers David M |
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Titolo |
Other immigrants : the global origins of the American people / / David M. Reimers |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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0-8147-6906-3 |
1-4294-1478-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (399 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology - United States - History |
Minorities - United States - History |
Immigrants - United States - History |
United States Ethnic relations |
United States Emigration and immigration History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-366) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The beginnings, 1550-1900 -- Asians in Hawaii and the United States -- North to America, 1900-1940 -- El Norte: Mexicans, 1940-present -- Central and South Americans -- Across the Pacific again, East Asian immigrants -- Across the Pacific again, South Asian immigrants -- Middle Easterners -- The new Black immigrants -- Refugees: Cubans and Asians. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians represent three of every four immigrants who arrived in the United States after 1970. Yet despite their large numbers and long history of movement to America, non-Europeans are conspicuously absent from many books about immigration. In Other Immigrants , David M. Reimers offers the first comprehensive account of non-European immigration, chronicling the compelling and diverse stories of frequently overlooked Americans. Reimers traces the early history of Black, Hispanic, and Asian immigrants from the fifteenth century through World War II, when racial hostility le |
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