{"product_id":"immigration-and-american-diversity-9780631220329","title":"Immigration and American Diversity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis engaging textbook is a concise overview of a sweeping topic - American Immigration. Immigration is core to the history of America - a Nation of Immigrants who are diverse by definition. Beginning with the first arrival of migrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe, and ending with a discussion of the United States at the turn of the 21st century, this book offers an unflinching analysis of the complex relationship between America''s national solidarity and ethnic diversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An intelligent and readily accessible synthesis of much scholarship on immigration and ethnicity, Donna Gabaccia's new book blends clearly written accounts with stimulating exercises for students. Authored by a leading immigration historian, \u003ci\u003eImmigration and American Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e covers its topics from their historical beginnings to ‘tomorrow's nation.' \u003ci\u003eWerner Sollors, Harvard University \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Gabaccia, a noted specialist in Sicilian and women's immigration history, gives a well-informed, fresh and intelligently idiosyncratic, account of immigrants in North Americafrom the pre-Columbian era to the present day.\" \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables. \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudent Exercise: American Diversity – and Me; American Diversity – and You.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Creating America; Creating Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Americans and Aliens, 1750–1835.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Emigrants and Regional Strife, 1820–1860.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudent Exercise: Catholic Nuns Testify in Court after the Burning of the Charlestown Convent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Redefining the Nation, 1850–1900.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudent Exercise: Can a Negro be a Nativist?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Immigrants in a Nativist America, 1890-1920.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudent Exercise, Determining the Geographic Origins of Immigrants at Century's Turn.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Migrants, Immigrants, and Scientific Racism, 1900-1945.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Postwar USA: Nation of Immigrants or Multicultural Nation?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudent Exercise: Ethnicity, Authors, and their Books.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Today's Immigrants; Tomorrow's Nation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudent Exercise: This Week's Headlines: An Oral Report on Immigration's Impact on Local Communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403434500439,"sku":"9780631220329","price":104.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631220329.jpg?v=1730483464","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/immigration-and-american-diversity-9780631220329","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}