Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy

by Desmond King

Book Overview

In the nineteenth century, virtually anyone could get into the United States. But by the 1920s, U.S. immigration policy had become a finely filtered regime of selection. Desmond King looks at this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674000889
• ISBN13: 9780674000889
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"