Building nations from diversity : Canadian and American experience compared / / Garth Stevenson
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| Autore: |
Stevenson Garth
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| Titolo: |
Building nations from diversity : Canadian and American experience compared / / Garth Stevenson
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (335 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 305.800971 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cultural pluralism - United States - History |
| Multiculturalism - Canada - History | |
| Immigrants - Government policy - Canada - History | |
| Immigrants - Government policy - United States - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Canada Emigration and immigration History |
| United States Emigration and immigration History | |
| Canada Ethnic relations History | |
| United States Ethnic relations History | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1 Introduction -- 2 Setting the Patterns -- 3 The Irish -- 4 The Chinese -- 5 The Jews -- 6 Ethnic Minorities in Wartime -- Immigration Policy: The Rise and Fall of Nativism -- 8 The Politics of Language -- 9 Multiculturalism: The Biography of an Idea -- 10 Islamophobia -- 11 Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Explores the question of whether the Canadian "mosaic" has differed from the American "melting pot" and provides an informative comparison of both countries' historical and present-day similarities and differences. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Building nations from diversity |
| ISBN: | 0-7735-8321-1 |
| 0-7735-8320-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786557003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. : Series two ; ; 35.