| Description |
xix, 598 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
American West in the twentieth century
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-584) and index. |
| Contents |
Immigrant stories from the West -- The draw of the late-nineteenth-century West -- Where in the West were they? -- Targets of racism : Chinese and others on the mainland and Hawai`i -- The Scandinavians and step migration -- The German presence -- Proximity of homeland : the Mexicans -- In the year 1903 -- Foreshadowing twentieth-century patterns -- Immigrant stories and the West in the 1900s -- Who came? -- The Dillingham commission and the West -- The continuing evolution of immigration and naturalization issues and policies (Asians) -- Miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs : Europeans compete with Europeans (Greeks and others) -- Land, labor, and immigrant communities : Hawai`i and the mainland (Asians, Portuguese, Armenians, and Scandinavians) -- Newcomers, old and new (Italians, Basques, French, and Mexicans) -- The First World War and Americanization -- State and federal laws and decisions, 1917-1920 -- The early 1920s : threshold of momentous changes -- A world of peoples : the 1920s and 1930s -- Demographic trends : a changing West and changing Westerners -- Institutionalizing the quota system : 1924 -- Divided yet interlinked : the rural West -- Filipinos : the newer immigrant wave bridging the rural and urban West -- Divided yet interlinked : the urban West in the interwar years -- Urban landscapes and ethnic encounters -- From "reoccupation" to repatriation : Mexicans in the Southwest between the wars -- Darker turns during the interwar years : workers and refugees -- Aliens and race issues on the eve of the Second World War -- Interwar or interlude? twilight and dawn in the West -- Voices from America on the eve of war -- War : against all those of Japanese descent -- The Second World War's other enemy aliens : Italians and Germans -- The homefront in wartime : preface to an era of change -- Wartime and postwar agricultural issues : land, labor, growers, and unions -- Immigrants and ethnics in the postwar years -- The Cold War heats up : the politics of immigration, 1950-1952 -- Dora and the harbinger of coming events -- Looking back on America's immigrant West. |
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Minorities -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Immigrants -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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West (U.S.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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West (U.S.) -- History.
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West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations.
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Cultural pluralism -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Acculturation -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Racism -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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West (U.S.) -- Social conditions.
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| ISBN |
9780253348517 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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025334851X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2510484 |
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