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Author: Dorothee Schneider
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-05-02
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0674047567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDorothee Schneider relates the story of immigrants’ passage from an old society to a new one, and American policymakers’ debates over admission to the United States and citizenship. Bringing together the histories of Europeans, Asians, and Mexicans, the book opens up a fresh view of immigrant expectations and government responses.
Author: Ronald H. Bayor
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1421413671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happened along the journey? How did the processing of so many people work? What were the reactions of the newly arrived to the process (and threats) of inspection, delays, hospitalization, detention, and deportation? How did immigration officials attempt to protect the country from diseased or "unfit" newcomers, and how did these definitions take shape and change? What happened to people who failed screening? And how, at the journey's end, did immigrants respond to admission to their new homeland? Ronald H. Bayor, a senior scholar in immigrant and urban studies, gives voice to both immigrants and Island workers to offer perspectives on the human experience and institutional imperatives associated with the arrival experience. Drawing on firsthand accounts from, and interviews with, immigrants, doctors, inspectors, aid workers, and interpreters, Bayor paints a vivid and sometimes troubling portrait of the immigration procedure.
Author: Donna R. Gabaccia
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0691134197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith an emphasis on American immigration during the late 19th century and early 20th-century industrial era and the contemporary era of free trade, Gabaccia shows that immigrants were not isolationists who cut ties to their countries of origin or their families.
Author: Marjory Harper
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Published: 2013-12-20
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1909912727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShortlisted for Scottish History Book of the Year at the Saltire Society Literary Awards 2013Scotland No More? taps into the need we all share — to know who we are and where we come from. Scots have always been on the move, and from all quarters we are bombarded with evidence of interest in their historical comings and goings. Earlier eras have been well covered, but until now the story of Scotland's twentieth-century diaspora has remained largely untold. Scotland No More? considers the causes and consequences of the phenomenon, scrutinising the exodus and giving free rein to the voices of those at the heart of the story: the emigrants themselves.
Author: David L. Ames
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Constance M. Greiff
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812280470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarefully researched and fully documented, Independence chronicles the history of the "cradle of liberty" that is Independence National Historical Park, the historical site most closely connected with the nation's founding. Constance M. Greiff illustrates how the park was shaped by national events and conditions in Philadelphia, change and growth within the National Park Service, and the interpersonal and political struggles among the key people involved in the park's development. She traces the process by which the participants arrived at the ideas underpinning the park's creation and development, conflicting views about the purpose and scope of the park, and the resolution of those conflicts.
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Teresa Baer
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 0871952998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe booklet opens with the Delaware Indians prior to 1818. White Americans quickly replaced the natives. Germanic people arrived during the mid-nineteenth century. African American indentured servants and free blacks migrated to Indianapolis. After the Civil War, southern blacks poured into the city. Fleeing war and political unrest, thousands of eastern and southern Europeans came to Indianapolis. Anti-immigration laws slowed immigration until World War II. Afterward, the city welcomed students and professionals from Asia and the Middle East and refugees from war-torn countries such as Vietnam and poor countries such as Mexico. Today, immigrants make Indianapolis more diverse and culturally rich than ever before.
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred Goldberg
Publisher: Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi
Published: 2007-09-05
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.
