Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration

by Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers

Book Overview

For more than three decades, Ethnic Americans has been hailed as a classic history of immigration to America. Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers begin with a brief overview of immigration during the colonial and early national eras (1492 to the 1820s), focusing primarily on the arrival of English Protestants, while at the same time stressing the diversity brought by Dutch, French, Spanish, and other small groups, including "free people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231143370
• ISBN13: 9780231143370
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Really good concise history of immigration

Dinnerstein and Reimers provide an easy to read summyar of American immigration from the conolain immigration to the present. It covers important immigration from Europe, Asia and Mexico such as public reaction, adjusment problems and immigration laws. It provides a great deal information about collective ethnic groups and their positions on domestic and international issues.

Concise and Comprehensive

Dinnerstein and Reimers presents a comprehensive overview of immigrants in the United States from 1607 until the present. Ethnic Americans covers the triumph and struggle of European, Latin America, Asian immigrants as they seek social, economic and political freedom in the United States. Examines the assimilation of immigrants despite facing racism and prejudice in the new world. This book is truly a historical, scholarly work but a readable book for everyone interested in the history of immigrants in the United States.