This land is our land the history of American immigration
"This book explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups evolved throughout U.S. history, particularly between 1800 and 1965. The book concludes with a summary of events up to contemporary times, as immigration again becomes a hot-button issue."--Provided by...
| Main Author: | Osborne, Linda Barrett, 1949- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Abrams Books for Young Readers,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- The beginnings: Germans, Irish, and Nativists
- The other Europe arrives: Italians, Jews, and Eastern Europeans
- The other shore: immigrants from Asia
- South of our border: Latin American immigrants
- Seeking safety and liberty: refugees
- This land is whose land?: from World War II into the twenty-first century
- Appendix: Coming to-and staying in-the United States
- Selected time line of immigration history.