The Making of Modern Immigration [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313392021 ISBN 13: 9780313392023

Publisher: ABC-CLIO, 2012

Synopsis

The two-volume The Making of Modern Immigration: An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas is organized around a series of four dozen in-depth essays on specific aspects of American immigration history since the founding of the Republic. This encyclopedia addresses the major historical themes and contemporary research trends related to U.S. immigration, canvassing all the major policy endeavors on immigration in the last two centuries.

In addition to documenting immigration policy, the contributors devote extensive attention to the historiography of immigration, supplementing theories with cutting-edge sociological data. Not content with providing a comprehensive overview of immigration history, however, the work also offers probing investigations of key figures behind the ideas that have shaped the nation's self-understanding. Taken as a whole, this seminal work lifts out the personalities and policies that surround the composition of America's national identity, illuminating the past as a series of lessons for the future.

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About the Author

Patrick J. Hayes, Ph.D., is the Archivist of the Redemptorists of the Baltimore Province, based in Brooklyn, New York.  He is the author of A Catholic Brain Trust: The History of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual Affairs, 1945-1965 and numerous scholarly articles.

Reviews

Gr 9 Up-Hayes and contributors succeed in the goal outlined in the introduction: to make the "past intelligible and interesting to those who are searching for fresh insight and accurate information on the assembled subjects." The 45 lengthy entries, which are expansive in scope, solid in scholarship, and compelling in argument, demonstrate that since the beginning of our nation's history, many giants of the American intellectual and social milieu have stood on both sides of the debate. The individually signed pieces tackle movements ("Sanctuary Movement"), laws ("The Yellow Peril: The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) to the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924"), and controversial issues ("Immigration and Customs Enforcement"). Notable figures are given extensive coverage, too; a piece on Denis Kearney, for example, that details the Irishman's racist and nativist activities, follows one covering Thomas Jefferson (readers are informed that the man "flinched at the prospect of immigrants bringing in strange languages and stranger political principles"). Each essay is accompanied by copious source notes and an expansive bibliography. Excellent.--Brian Odom, Pelham Public Library, ALα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313392021
• ISBN 13: 9780313392023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 864
• Editor: Hayes Patrick J.