Encountering Ellis Island - How European Immigrants Entered America

Informationen zum Autor Ronald H. Bayor is a professor emeritus of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and former president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. He is author of Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941 , and coeditor of The New York Irish , both published by Johns Hopkins. Klappentext Encountering Ellis Island lays bare the profound and sometimes-victorious story of people chasing the American Dream: leaving everything behind, facing a new language and a new culture, and starting a new American life. Zusammenfassung America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. This book introduces readers to the ways in which the principal nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American portal for Europeans worked in practice! with some comparison to Angel Island! the main entry point for Asian immigrants.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald H Bayor, Ronald H. Bayor, Ronald H. (Georgia Institute of Technology) Bayor
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2014
• EAN: 9781421413679
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1367-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: How Things Worked; How Things Worked
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous