Round-Trip to America

by Mark Wyman

Book Overview

Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States. Other scholars have dealt with particular national groups... but Wyman is the first to treat... every major group.... Wyman explains returning to Europe as not just the fulfillment of original intentions but also the result of 'anger at bosses and clocks, nostalgia for waiting families, ' nativist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801428750
• ISBN13: 9780801428753
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Wyman presents a new story of the US immigrant.

I kept turning pages to see what happens next to our cousins that returned to their mother countries. The US was certainly not utopia for all that came here. Wyman stays tight and true to his subject, but the words flow so easily I read the book in one sitting.