From all points : America's immigrant West, 1870s-1952 / Elliott Robert Barkan.
From all points : America's immigrant West, 1870s-1952 / Elliott Robert Barkan.
From all points : America's immigrant West, 1870s-1952 / Elliott Robert Barkan.
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.
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N305.80097/ 23
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English
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xix, 598 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction : defining themes - the West, westerners, and whiteness -- Prelude : western immigrant experiences -- Pt. 1. Laying the groundwork : immigrants and immigration laws, old and new, 1870s-1903 -- 1. Immigrant stories from the West -- 2. The draw of the late-nineteenth-century West -- 3. Wh...
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.
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Indiana
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c2007.
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"At a time when immigration policy is the subject of heated debate, this book makes clear that the true wealth of America is in the diversity of its peoples. By the end of the twentieth century the American West was home to nearly half of America's immigrant population. Asians and Armenians, Germans and Greeks, Mexicans, Italians, Swedes, and Basqu...
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From all points : America's immigrant West, 1870s-1952 / Elliott Robert Barkan.
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American West in the twentieth century.
American West in the twentieth century.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-584) and index.
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c2007.
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N305.80097/ 23
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74VKRPp6o0Qy
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9780253348517 (cloth : alk. paper)
025334851X (cloth : alk. paper)
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305.800978
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991023032839702626
