Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 1840-1930 - Couverture rigide

Hoerder, Dirk

 
9780841913028: Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 1840-1930
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0841913021 ISBN 13 : 9780841913028
Editeur : Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc, 1993

Synopsis

This volume documents experiences of the many peasant and working-class emigrants from England, Ireland, Scandinavia, Italy, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and East European Jewish communities. The comparative perspectives enables the authors to distinguish similarities and differences among diverse immigrant groups, experiences, and destinations. Drawing on rare first-hand accounts and moving personal documents-letters, diaries, guidebooks, the labour and immigrant press, songs, poems, plays, novels-essays chronicle the psychological and social as well as economic and politics aspects of the immigrant experience. Evoking the rich texture and diversity of immigrant experience and mentalities, this unique and engaging work makes an important contribution to our understanding of the complex processes of migration and acculturation.

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Éditeur
Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0841913021
ISBN 13 
9780841913028
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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