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Title:Huddled Masses -- the Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921, Second Edition
Series:(American History Series)
Author:Alan M Kraut
ISBN:0882959344 : 9780882959344
Illustrations:b/w photos
Format:Paperback
Size:135x200mm
Pages:267
Weight: .345 Kg.
Published:Harlan Davidson - February 2001
List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:American history: c1800 to c1900: American history: from c1900-: Immigration & emigration: USA: c1800-c1900: 20th century


This history of the 'new immigration' weighs the many factors that prompted the decision to leave the old world. Though the designation 'new immigrant' generally refers to southern and eastern Europeans only, this volume also includes the Chinese and Japanese who arrived in the period from 1880-1921. Kraut argues that immigration to America was but one of the many choices available to the immigrants, and that individual aptitude and desires were just as influential as cultural, social, and familial pressures to find a better life. The immigrants' impact on America and their new countrymen is also considered. Includes a very good, 32-page photographic essay