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Offers insight into the daily life of nineteenth-century immigrant children from Scotland, China, Ireland, and Italy, and provides profiles of real immigrant children and their later successes.
Author : John Bliss
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1410940748
Offers insight into the daily life of nineteenth-century immigrant children from Scotland, China, Ireland, and Italy, and provides profiles of real immigrant children and their later successes.
Author : William E. Van Vugt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 1999
Category : British Americans
ISBN : 9780252067570
From 1820 to 1860, the United States and Great Britain were the two most closely interconnected countries in the world in terms of culture and economic growth. In an important addition to immigration history, William Van Vugt explores who came to America from Great Britain during this period and why. Disruptions and economic hardships, such as the repeal of Britain's protective Corn Laws, the potato famine, and technological displacement, do not account for the great mid-century surge of British migration to America. Rather than desperation and impoverishment, Van Vugt finds that immigrants were motivated by energy, tenacity, and ambition to improve their lives by taking advantage of opportunities in America. Drawing on county histories, passenger lists of immigrant ships, census data, and manuscript collections in Great Britain and the United States, Van Vugt sketches the lives and fortunes of dozens of immigrant farmers, miners, artisans, skilled and unskilled laborers, professionals, and religious nonconformists.
Author : Hidetaka Hirota
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 019061921X
Expelling the Poor argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for American immigration control.
Author : Robert Lee Stockman
Publisher : Plattduutsch Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"The 19th century is important in northern Germany because ... many of its citizens felt it necessary to leave their homeland, emigrating to North America and many other parts of the world. Along wiith them ... went their history, their language, their memories, their hopes and their culture."--Page 1.
Author : José Angel Hernández
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1107378753
This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States, following a war that resulted in the loss of half Mexico's territory. Responding to past interpretations, Jose Angel Hernández suggests that these resettlement schemes centred on developments within the frontier region, the modernisation of the country with loyal Mexican American settlers, and blocking the tide of migrations to the United States to prevent the depopulation of its fractured northern border. Through an examination of Mexico's immigration and colonisation policies as they developed in the nineteenth century, this book focuses primarily on the population of Mexican citizens who were 'lost' after the end of the Mexican American War of 1846–8 until the end of the century.
Author : Kaoru Ueda
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081792356X
In five meticulously researched essays, Yasuo Sakata examines Japanese migration to the United States from an international and deeply historical perspective. Sakata argues the importance of using resources from both sides of the Pacific and taking a holistic view that incorporates US-Japanese diplomatic relationships, the mass media, the American view of Asian populations, and Japan's self-image as a modern, westernized nation. In his first essay, Sakata provides an overview of resources and warns against their gaps and biases; those that remain may reflect culturally based inaccuracies. In the other essays, Sakata examines Japanese migration through a multifaceted lens, incorporating an understanding of immigration, labor, working conditions, diplomatic relationships, and the effects of war and mass media. He further emphasizes the distinctions between the dekasegi period, the transition period, and the imin period. He also discusses the self-image among Japanese as distinct from the Chinese, more westernized and able to assimilate—a distinction lost on Americans, who tended to lump the Asian groups together, both in treatment and under the law. Japan's Meiji era brought the opening of Japanese ports to Western nations and Japan's eventual overseas expansion. This translated volume of Sakata's well-researched work brings a transnational perspective to this critical chapter of early Japanese American history.
Author : Benjamin Bryce
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0813055296
For almost two centuries North America has been a major destination for international migrants, but from the late nineteenth century onward, governments began to regulate borders, set immigration quotas, and define categories of citizenship. To develop a more dimensional approach to migration studies, the contributors to this volume focus on people born in the United States and Canada who migrated to the other country, as well as Japanese, Chinese, German, and Mexican migrants who came to the United States and Canada. These case studies explore how people and ideas transcend geopolitical boundaries. By including local, national, and transnational perspectives, the editors emphasize the value of tracking connections over large spaces and political boundaries. Entangling Migration History ultimately contends that crucial issues in the United States and Canada, such as labor and economic growth and ideas about the racial or religious makeup of the nation, are shaped by the two countries’ connections to each other and the surrounding world.
Author : Gretchen E. Reardon
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1969
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Raymond L. Cohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521513227
Dr Cohn provides an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the economic history of European immigration to the antebellum United States, using and evaluating the available data as well as presenting fresh data. This analysis centers on immigration from the three most important source countries - Ireland, Germany, and Great Britain - and examines the volume of immigration, how many individuals came from each country during the antebellum period, and why those numbers increased. The book also analyzes where they came from within each country; who chose to immigrate; the immigrants' trip to the United States, including estimates of mortality on the Atlantic crossing; the jobs obtained in the United States by the immigrants, along with their geographic location; and the economic effects of immigration on both the immigrants and the antebellum United States. No other book examines so many different economic aspects of antebellum immigration.
Author : Terry Coleman
Publisher : London: Hutchinson of London
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN :