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The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People

The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People

Handlin, Oscar

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General SociologyGeneral United States HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0812217888
ISBN13: 9780812217889
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Feb 20 2002
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize in history, The Uprooted chronicles the common experiences of the millions of European immigrants who came to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--their fears, their hopes, their expectations. The New Yorker called it strong stuff, handled in a masterly and quite moving way, while the New York Times suggested that The Uprooted is history with a difference--the difference being its concerns with hearts and souls no less than an event.

The book inspired a generation of research in the history of American immigration, but because it emphasizes the depressing conditions faced by immigrants, focuses almost entirely on European peasants, and does not claim to provide a definitive answer to the causes of American immigration, its great value as a well-researched and readable description of the emotional experiences of immigrants, and its ability to evoke the time and place of America at the turn of a century, have sometimes been overlooked. Recognized today as a foundational text in immigration studies, this edition contains a new preface by the author.

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