Foreign relations : American immigration in global perspective / Donna R. Gabaccia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: America in the worldPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, Description: xi, 271 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691134192
  • 0691134197
  • 9780691163659
  • 0691163650
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 304.8/73 23
LOC classification:
  • JV6450 .G22 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Isolated or independent? American immigration before 1850 -- Empire and the discovery of immigrant foreign relations, 1850-1924 -- Immigration and restriction: protection in a dangerous world, 1850-1965 -- Immigration and globalization, 1965 to the present -- Conclusion: "the inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance."
Summary: With an emphasis on American immigration during the late 19th century and early 20th-century industrial era and the contemporary era of free trade, Gabaccia shows that immigrants were not isolationists who cut ties to their countries of origin or their families.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Isolated or independent? American immigration before 1850 -- Empire and the discovery of immigrant foreign relations, 1850-1924 -- Immigration and restriction: protection in a dangerous world, 1850-1965 -- Immigration and globalization, 1965 to the present -- Conclusion: "the inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance."

With an emphasis on American immigration during the late 19th century and early 20th-century industrial era and the contemporary era of free trade, Gabaccia shows that immigrants were not isolationists who cut ties to their countries of origin or their families.

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