Immigration: An American History Bon Tempo Carl J.
A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the presentThe history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R.…
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A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the presentThe history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner provide a sweeping historical narrative told through the lives and words of the quite ordinary people who did nothing less than make the nation.Drawing on both classic and recent scholarship, the authors cover the colonial period to the present, detailing the experiences of multiple migrant groups from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and many of the major themes in American immigration scholarship, such as motivations for migration, settlement patterns, racism and nativism, and immigration law and policy. Taking a global approach that considers economic and personal factors in both the sending societies and in the United States, the authors also consider how