ISBN: HB: 9780300226867

Yale University Press

July 2022

416 pp.

23,5x15,6 cm

21 black&white illus.

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£30.00
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Immigration

An American History

A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present.

The history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner provide a sweeping historical narrative told through the lives and words of the quite ordinary people who did nothing less than make the nation.

Drawn from stories spanning the colonial period to the present, Bon Tempo and Diner detail the experiences of people from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. They explore the many themes of American immigration scholarship, including the contexts and motivations for migration, settlement patterns, work, family, racism, and nativism, against the background of immigration law and policy. Taking a global approach that considers economic and personal factors in both the sending and receiving societies, the authors pay close attention to how immigration has been shaped by the state response to its promises and challenges.

About the author

Carl J. Bon Tempo is associate professor of history at SUNY-Albany. He lives in Cold Spring, NY.

Hasia R. Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. She lives in New York City.