Coming to America

by Daniels, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780060505776
• ISBN10: 006050577X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-04
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

With a timely new chapter on immigration in the current age of globalization, a new Preface, and new appendixes with the most recent statistics, this revised edition is an engrossing study of immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present.

Author Biography

Roger Daniels is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati.

Table of Contents

Tables, Charts, and Maps	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xi
Colonial America
Overseas Migration from Europe	p. 3
English Immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England	p. 30
Slavery and Immigrants from Africa	p. 53
Other Europeans in Colonial America	p. 66
Ethnicity and Race in American Life	p. 101
The Century of Immigration (1820-1924)
Pioneers of the Century of Immigration: Irish, Germans, and Scandinavians	p. 121
From the Mediterranean: Italians, Greeks, Arabs, and Armenians	p. 185
Eastern Europeans: Poles, Jews, and Hungarians	p. 212
Minorities from Other Regions: Chinese, Japanese, and French Canadians	p. 238
The Triumph of Nativism	p. 265
Modern Times
Migration in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1921-1945	p. 287
From the New World: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans	p. 307
Changing the Rules: Immigration Law, 1948-1980	p. 328
The New Asian Immigrants	p. 350
Caribbeans, Central Americans, and Soviet Jews	p. 371
The 1980s and Beyond	p. 388
Immigration in an Age of Globalization	p. 409
Appendix I	p. 453
Appendix II	p. 455
Appendix III	p. 457
Notes	p. 461
Selected Bibliography	p. 477
Additional Bibliography	p. 487
Acknowledgments	p. 493
Index	p. 495
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