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From All Points : America's Immigrant West, 1870s-1952 /
At a time when immigration policy is the subject of heated debate, this book makes clear that the true wealth of America is in the diversity of its peoples. By the end of the 20th century the American West was home to nearly half of America's immigrant population, including Asians and Armenians...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2007]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Immigrant stories from the West
- The draw of the late-nineteenth-century West
- Where in the West were they?
- Targets of racism : Chinese and others on the mainland and Hawaiʻi
- The Scandinavians and step migration
- The German presence
- Proximity of homeland : the Mexicans
- In the year 1903
- Foreshadowing twentieth-century patterns
- Immigrant stories and the West in the 1900s
- Who came?
- The Dillingham commission and the West
- The continuing evolution of immigration and naturalization issues and policies (Asians)
- Miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs : Europeans compete with Europeans (Greeks and others)
- Land, labor, and immigrant communities : Hawaiʻi and the mainland (Asians, Portuguese, Armenians, and Scandinavians)
- Newcomers, old and new (Italians, Basques, French, and Mexicans)
- The First World War and Americanization
- State and federal laws and decisions, 1917-1920
- The early 1920s : threshold of momentous changes
- A world of peoples : the 1920s and 1930s
- Demographic trends : a changing West and changing Westerners
- Institutionalizing the quota system : 1924
- Divided yet interlinked : the rural West
- Filipinos : the newer immigrant wave bridging the rural and urban West
- Divided yet interlinked : the urban West in the interwar years
- Urban landscapes and ethnic encounters
- From "reoccupation" to repatriation : Mexicans in the Southwest between the wars
- Darker turns during the interwar years : workers and refugees
- Aliens and race issues on the eve of the Second World War
- Interwar or interlude? twilight and dawn in the West
- Voices from America on the eve of war
- War : against all those of Japanese descent
- The Second World War's other enemy aliens : Italians and Germans
- The homefront in wartime : preface to an era of change
- Wartime and postwar agricultural issues : land, labor, growers, and unions
- Immigrants and ethnics in the postwar years
- The Cold War heats up : the politics of immigration, 1950-1952
- Dora and the harbinger of coming events
- Looking back on America's immigrant West.