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Inventing the Immigration Problem : The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy /
In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts-women and men trained in the new field of social science-fanned out across the country to collect data on th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Professor and the Commission
- 2. The Gentlemen's Agreement
- 3. Hebrew or Jewish Is Simply a Religion
- 4. The Vanishing American Wage Earner
- 5. Women's Power and Knowledge
- 6. The American Type
- 7. Not a Question of Too Many Immigrants
- Epilogue
- Dillingham Commission Members and Selected Staff
- Dillingham Commission Reports
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Index