The great departure mass migration from Eastern Europe and the making of the free world

"A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immi...

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Main Author: Zahra, Tara.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Not a golden country"
  • Travel agents on trial
  • "The man farthest down"
  • Happy and unhappy returns
  • The first final solution
  • Work will set you free
  • The freedom train
  • Free to stay or go.