The Great Departure - Mass Immigration From Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

Informationen zum Autor Tara Zahra is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a professor of history at the University of Chicago. Recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she lives in Chicago, Illinois. Klappentext Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the "land of the free" and yet more than a third returned home again. In a ground-breaking study, Tara Zahra explores the deeper story of this movement of people. As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labour. Others saw opportunity: to seed colonies like the Polish community in Argentina or to reshape their populations by encouraging the emigration of minorities. These precedents would shape the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain and tragedies of ethnic cleansing while also forming notions of social solidarity, human rights and freedom.

Product details

• Authors: Tara Zahra, Zahra Tara
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2017
• EAN: 9780393353723
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35372-3
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples