| Descript |
206 pages : illustrations, charts ; 22 cm |
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Spectrum book ; S-2 |
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Spectrum book ; S-2
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| Note |
Traces the history of immigrants of describing problems of adjustment and his indispensable role in the idustry, agriculture, politics, and cultural life of America |
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1.The Dimensions of the Problem ; The Lessons of the Colonial Experience / William Rawle -- The Westward Flow of Peoples / Marcus L. Hansen -- Some Indications of Volume / Brown and Roucek -- Some Indications of Motive / Samuel Gompers, Polish Peasants -- |
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2. The Old World Background ; The Flight from Famine in Ireland / Father John O'Sullivan, Lord Mountcashell -- Migration out of Germany / Chambers's Edinburgh Journal -- The Disruption of the East European Economy / Emily Greene Balch -- The Source of Italian Labor / John Foster Carr -- The Perils of the Crossing / Andreas Geyer, New York State Commissioners of Emigration, Robert Louis Stevenson -- |
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3. The Economic Adjustment ; The Immigrant and American Agriculture / Marcus L. Hansen, Calvin Colton -- The Immigrant Artisan / S.H. Collins -- The Immigrant Buisnessman / Abraham Kohn -- The Immigrant and the Labor Market / United States Immigration Commission, Isaac A. Hourwich -- The Industries Manned by Immigrants / Hagerstown Torch-Light, John D. Warner, W.R. Jones, Peter Roberts -- The Immigrant and American Population / Francis A. Walker, Walter F. Willcox -- |
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4. Immigrant Organization ; The Churches / Stuart, Federal Art Project, St. Raphael Society -- Immigrant Organization for Self-Help / Massachusetts Commission of Immigration -- To Preserve the Old Culture / A.M. Skibinska, Mark Villchur, Mordicai Soltes -- |
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5. The Immigrant in American Politics ; The Immigrant and the City Machine / Lincoln Steffens, George W. Plunkitt, Robert A. Woods -- Widening Visions of Politics / Carl Schurz, Alfred E. Smith -- American Politics and the Outer World / John Hay -- |
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6. Cultural Contributions ; The European Scholar as Teacher / Palmer -- The European as an Impresario / Theodore Thomas -- An Immigrant Author / Lincoln Colcord -- Grace as an Aspect of Culture / Charles F. Read -- The Passionate Italian / Putnam's Monthly -- The Good-Natured German / Charles F. Adams -- Realism in the Yiddish Theater / Hutchins Hapgood -- |
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7. Conceptions of Americanization ; America as a Melting Pot / Crevecoeur, Emma Lazarus, Israel Zangwil, Percy S. Grant -- Cultural Pluralism / Horace M. Kallen, Carl H. Grabo -- Advocates of Assimilation / Richmond Mayo-Smith -- The Immigrant Views His Own Adjustment / Polish Immigrant, A.R. Dugmore -- |
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8. Restriction ; The Orientals and Color Predjudice / Mary R. Coolidge, Carey McWilliams -- Religious Intolerance / Oscar and Mary F. Handlin, The Fiery Cross -- Racism / Madison Grant -- The Literacy Test Defended / Samuel Gompers -- The Literacy Test Condemned / Woodrow Wilson -- Effects of the War / Robert DeC. Ward -- The Quota System and Its Effects / William S. Bernard -- |
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9. The Aftermath ; America: A Land of Immigrants / President's Commission on Immigration |
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4th printing (1965). MH |
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Lib. has: 2nd printing, 1961. HS(TH) |
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Online version: Handlin, Oscar, 1915-2011. Immigration as a factor in American history. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1959 (OCoLC)558088342
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Online version: Handlin, Oscar, 1915-2011. Immigration as a factor in American history. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1959 (OCoLC)609440216
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Immigrants -- United States
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United States -- Emigration and immigration
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