Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History

Reed Ueda

ISBN 10: 031207526X / ISBN 13: 9780312075262

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 1994

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This text examines the transformation of immigration to the United States since World War II. An introduction summarizes the history of immigration to the US before World War II and the book discusses themes such as the changes in American immigration and naturalization policies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031207526X
• ISBN 13: 9780312075262
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

In his global perspective and analytic treatment, Reed Ueda goes beyond a narrative historical account of twentieth-century American immigration to focus on the global and international forces that prompted the large-scale uprooting and transplanting of people following World War II.

About the Author

Reed Ueda, associate professor of history at Tufts University, has taught at Brandeis University and Harvard University. Ueda has received fellowship awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has been on the advisory boards of the University of Chicago School Review, the Harvard Educational Review, American Quarterly, and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. He has explored the social history of education, urbanization, and immigration in West End House (1981) and Avenues to Adulthood (1987) and has served as research editor of the award-winning Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (1980).