Immigrants in the Far West : Historical Identities and Experiences /

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"This book is a collection of essays showcasing cutting-edge research and innovative approaches that a new generation of scholars is bringing to the study of immigration in the American West. Often overlooked in general studies of immigration, the western United States has been and is an import...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cannon, Brian Q. (Editor ), Embry, Jessie L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Immigrants.
Emigration and immigration.
Cultural pluralism.
Acculturation.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Cultural pluralism > West (U.S.) > History.
Acculturation > West (U.S.) > History.
Immigrants > West (U.S.) > History.
West United States.
West (U.S.) > Emigration and immigration > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Immigrants and Colonists : Three Accounts of Mexican California / Brett Garcia Myhren
  • Hell and Heaven on Wheels : Mormons, Immigrants, and the (Re)construction of American Progress and Masculinity on the Transcontinental Railroad / Ryan Dearinger
  • Japanese Immigrants and the Dillingham Commission : Federal Immigration Policy and the American West / Katherine Benton-Cohen
  • The Specter of Nations : Immigration, Gothicism, and Transnational Mimicry in Two Post-Revolutionary Mexican American Novels / D. Seth Horton
  • Converting the Civilizing Mission : American Catholics, Mexican Immigrants, and the Taming of the West in the Early Twentieth Century / Anne M. Martínez
  • "Something Fearful and Wonderful" : Immigrant Children, Americanization, and Public Education in Los Angeles, 1900-1929 / Eileen V. Wallis
  • Locally Made : Immigrant Whiteness in Montana's Copper Communities / Matthew Basso
  • Social Capital and Frontier Community Building : The Case of Immigrant Jews in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles / Karen S. Wilson
  • Greening the Silver Saloon : Building Irish Community in the Mining West / Michelle A. Charest
  • "Saints in the Pit" : Mormon Colliers in Britain and the Intermountain West / Mindi Sitterud-McCluskey
  • The Frontier Thesis in Transnational Migration : The U.S. West in the Making of Italy Abroad / Mark I. Choate
  • Outlanders and Inlanders : Boer Colonization in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1902-1905 / Andrew Offenburger
  • The Spatial Distribution of Hispanics in the Mountain West, 1970-2010 / J. Matthew Shumway
  • Hispanic Mormon Immigrants in Provo, Utah / Jessie L. Embry and Meisha Slight.

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