Immigration (Belknap Press) - Softcover

Easterlin, Richard A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674444396 ISBN 13: 9780674444393

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1980

Synopsis

The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. The Dimensions of Ethnicity series is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics of a pluralistic nation or masterfully summarize the experience of key groups. Written by the best-qualified scholars in each field, Dimensions of Ethnicity titles will reflect the complex interplay between assimilation and pluralism that is a central theme of the American experience.

This concise volume recounts the social and economic characteristics of successive waves of immigrants, where they settled, and how they achieved citizenship.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The extraordinary proliferation of literature on ethnicity and ethnic groups made possible--and necessary--an effort to take stock. An authoritative, up-to-date synthesis of the current state of knowledge in the field was called for. The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, published by the Harvard University Press in 1980, is such a synthesis. It provides entries by leading scholars on the origins, history, and present situation of the more than 100 ethnic groups that make up the population of the United States, and 29 thematic essays on a wide range of ethnic topics. As one reviewer said, the volume is 'a kind of summa ethnica of our time.'

About the Author:

Reed Ueda is Professor of History at Tufts University and author of Postwar Immigrant America.

About this edition

• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0674444396
• ISBN 13: 9780674444393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168