(来到美国:美国移民、种族历史)COMING TO AMERICA

分类: 图书,进口原版书,人文社科 Non Fiction ,
作者: Roger Daniels著
出 版 社: 音像供货
出版时间: 1990-12-1字数:版次: 1页数: 450印刷时间: 1991/10/01开本:印次:纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780060921002包装: 平装内容简介
A valuable contribution to the growing field of historical research on immigra-ion...oncentrating on the demographics and everyday lives of immigrants to America in three periods: colonial times, 1820-1924, and the modern era A solid volume for readers in search of their roots.
Perhaps the most authoritative and readable single-volume history of immigra-tion yet written. Nationality by nationality, Daniels traces the migration of refugees to this country as far back as the year 1500.Substantial, impressive.
This book provides the first comprehensive history of immigration to the United States in twenty years [Coming to America] utilizes nearly all the existing scholarship on the topic to create a readable synthesis. It provides a quick reference source for nonspecialists and general readers
From almost every comer of the globe, in numbers great and small, America has drawn people whose contributions are as varied as their origins. Historians have spent much of the tgeneration investigating the separate pieces of that great story. Now historian Roger Daniels has crafted a work that does justice to-- the whole.
目录
Tables, Charts, and Maps
Acknowledgments
Part Ⅰ: Colonial America
1. Overseas Migration from Europe
2. English Immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England
3. Slavery and Immigrants from Africa
4. Other Europeans in Colonial America
5. Ethnicity and Race in American Life
Part Ⅱ: The Century of Immigration (1820-1924)
6. Pioneers of the Century of Immigration: Irish, Germans,and Scandinavians
7. From the Mediterranean: Italians, Greeks, Arabs, and Armenians
8. Eastern Europeans: Poles, Jews, and Hungarians
9. Minorities from Other Regions: Chinese, Japanese, and French Canadians
10. The Triumph of Nativism
Part Ⅲ: Modern Times
11. Migration in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1921-1945
12. From the New World: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans
13. Changing the Rules: Immigration Law, 1948-1980
14. The New Asian Immigrants
15. Caribbeans, Central Americans, and Soviet Jews
16. The 1980s and Beyond
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index