American Immigration

by Maldwyn Allen Jones

Book Overview

Immigration, writes Maldwyn Allen Jones, was America's historic raison d' tre. Reminding us that the history of immigration to the United States is also the history of emigration from somewhere else, Mr. Jones considers the forces that uprooted emigrants from their homes in different parts of the world and analyzes the social, economic, and psychological adjustments that American life demanded of them--adjustments essentially the same for the Jamestown...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226406342
• ISBN13: 9780226406343
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 361 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.3" x 8.0"