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Autore: | Barkan Elliott Robert |
Titolo: | From All Points [[electronic resource] ] : America's Immigrant West, 1870s-1952 / / Elliott Robert Barkan |
Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, [Indiana] ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Press, , 2007 |
©2007 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (648 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina: | 305.800978 |
Soggetto topico: | Racism - West (U.S.) - History |
Acculturation - West (U.S.) - History | |
Cultural pluralism - West (U.S.) - History | |
Pioneers - West (U.S.) - History | |
Immigrants - West (U.S.) - History | |
Minorities - West (U.S.) - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | West (U.S.) Social conditions |
West (U.S.) Ethnic relations | |
West (U.S.) History | |
West (U.S.) Emigration and immigration History | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-584) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Immigrant stories from the West -- The draw of the late-nineteenth-century West -- Where in the West were they? -- Targets of racism : Chinese and others on the mainland and Hawaiʻi -- The Scandinavians and step migration -- The German presence -- Proximity of homeland : the Mexicans -- In the year 1903 -- Foreshadowing twentieth-century patterns -- Immigrant stories and the West in the 1900s -- Who came? -- The Dillingham commission and the West -- The continuing evolution of immigration and naturalization issues and policies (Asians) -- Miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs : Europeans compete with Europeans (Greeks and others) -- Land, labor, and immigrant communities : Hawaiʻi and the mainland (Asians, Portuguese, Armenians, and Scandinavians) -- Newcomers, old and new (Italians, Basques, French, and Mexicans) -- The First World War and Americanization -- State and federal laws and decisions, 1917-1920 -- The early 1920s : threshold of momentous changes -- A world of peoples : the 1920s and 1930s -- Demographic trends : a changing West and changing Westerners -- Institutionalizing the quota system : 1924 -- Divided yet interlinked : the rural West -- Filipinos : the newer immigrant wave bridging the rural and urban West -- Divided yet interlinked : the urban West in the interwar years -- Urban landscapes and ethnic encounters -- From "reoccupation" to repatriation : Mexicans in the Southwest between the wars -- Darker turns during the interwar years : workers and refugees -- Aliens and race issues on the eve of the Second World War -- Interwar or interlude? twilight and dawn in the West -- Voices from America on the eve of war -- War : against all those of Japanese descent -- The Second World War's other enemy aliens : Italians and Germans -- The homefront in wartime : preface to an era of change -- Wartime and postwar agricultural issues : land, labor, growers, and unions -- Immigrants and ethnics in the postwar years -- The Cold War heats up : the politics of immigration, 1950-1952 -- Dora and the harbinger of coming events -- Looking back on America's immigrant West. |
Titolo autorizzato: | From All Points |
ISBN: | 0-253-02796-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910154712303321 |
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