Description
Book Synopsis"Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States."—Journal of American History
Trade Review"Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States."
* Journal of American History *
A wide-ranging and carefully researched work.... In telling the story of 'temporary immigrants,' Wyman displays a historian's eye for the big picture and a journalist's ear for compelling anecdotes.
* Journal of Economic History *
This book fills an important lacuna and will prove a welcome text for immigration history courses.
* American Historical Review *
Wyman has written a fine book about the 4,000,000 or so European immigrants to the United States who arrived in this country between 1880 and 1930 and who chose to return to their native lands.... Even though much of the material is familiar, getting to look at it from another perspective is extraordinarily worthwhile.
* Labor History *
Table of ContentsPart One: Migrants and Immigrants
1. A Two-Way Migration
2. Seasonal Migrations and the America Fever
Part Two: American Realities
3. Immigrants in an Industrializing Economy
4. Leaving the Land of Bosses and Clocks
5. Politics, Unions, and Postwar Americanism
Part Three: The Remigrant at Home
6. Peasants Back on the Land
7. Workers' Ideas Carried Back
8. Churches, Traditions, and the Remigrant
Part Four: A Round-Trip Journey Concluded
9. The America Trunk Comes Home
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Notes
Index
