Coming to America: A history of immigration and ethnicity in American life

Daniels, Roger

ISBN 10: 0060160985 ISBN 13: 9780060160982

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1990

Synopsis

A leading expert's lavishly illustrated, comprehensive, and definitive study of immigration--up-to-date and engrossing.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Daniels is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1961 and is a past president of both the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. He has written widely about Asian Americans and immigration. Among his most recent books are Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924; Debating American Immigration, 1882-Present (with Otis Graham); and American Immigration: A Student Companion.

From School Library Journal:

YA-- After discussing the topic of immigration in general and sociological theories of why people migrate between countries, Daniel discusses each racial or national group that came to the United States during the various eras of the nation's history, giving statistics and patterns of immigration and detailing interesting and often little-known facts. Also set out are the reactions of Americans to the various waves of immigration from the rise of the antiforeign Nativists, Know Nothing, and Ku Klux Klan elements; to the restrictive immigration laws and quotas of the 1920s; through the World War II era incarceration of Japanese Americans in "resettlement camps." This excellent work is an effective tool for increasing multicultural awareness and should be an effective teaching guide for social sciences and humanities.
- Richard Lisker, Fairfax County Pub . Lib . , VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0060160985
• ISBN 13: 9780060160982
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450