From all points America's immigrant West, 1870s-1952
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press
2007
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| Colección: | American West in the twentieth century
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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 west
- 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.
