1st Edition

Immigration in American History

By Kristen L. Anderson Copyright 2021
212 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Immigration in American History is a concise examination of the experiences of immigrants from the founding of the British colonies through the present day. The most recent scholarship on immigration is integrated into an accessible narrative that embraces the multicultural nature of U.S. immigration history, keeping issues of race and power at the center of the book. Organized... Read more
PART I: Analysis and Assessment  1. Migration to the British Colonies  2. Immigration during the Early National and Antebellum Eras  3. Immigration during the Late Nineteenth Century  4. The Road to Restriction  5. Immigration under the National Origins Acts  6. Immigration during the Late Twentieth Century  7. Immigration at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century  PART II: Documents

Biography

Kristen L. Anderson, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History at Webster University, USA, where she specializes in the history of immigration, slavery, and the Civil War.