Coming to America

A completely updated edition of the best single volume history of immigration of the U.S.

One of America''s greatest resources is its diverse population of immigrants. Albert Einstein, Irving Berlin and Madeline Albright are just a few of the many people who came to the United States, enriching our country in the process. Coming to America examines the history of immigration in the United States, from colonial times to modern days. For more than four hundred years, people have come to the United States from all over the world. Daniels examines the different waves of migration over the years, from the British in the seventeenth century to immigrants from the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. Chapters on the role of ethnicity and race in America, immigration laws and the effect of globalization on the country provide a fuller picture of the immigration experience. Coming to America is a must-read for students, researchers and anyone who is interested in finding out more about their own immigrant ancestors. Roger Daniels is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA. He has written widely about Asian Americans and immigration. Among his most recent books are Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924; Debating American Immigration, 1882-Present (with Otis Graham); and American Immigration: A Student Companion. ''From almost every corner of the globe, in numbers great and small, America has drawn people whose contributions are as varied as their origins. Historians have spent much of the last generation investigating the separate pieces of that great story. Now historian Roger Daniels has crafted a work that does justice to the whole.'' - San Francisco Chronicle

“Encyclopedic in scope, yet lively and provocative.... One of those rare books that will serve experts and the general public equally well.”

Autorentext
Roger Daniels is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1961 and is a past president of both the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. He has written widely about Asian Americans and immigration. Among his most recent books are Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924; Debating American Immigration, 1882-Present (with Otis Graham); and American Immigration: A Student Companion.

Klappentext
With a timely new chapter on immigration in the current age of globalization, a new Preface, and new appendixes with the most recent statistics, this revised edition is an engrossing study of immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present.

Zusammenfassung
One of our generation’s best historical accounts of immigration in the United States from the earliest colonial days“From almost every corner of the globe, in numbers great and small, America has drawn people whose contributions are as varied as their origins. Historians have spent much of the last generation investigating the separate pieces of that great story. Historian Roger Daniels has crafted a work that does justice to the whole.” — San Francisco ChronicleFormer professor Roger Daniels does his utmost to capture the history of immigration to America as accurately as possible in this definitive account of one of the most pressing and layered social issues of our time. With chapters that include statistics, maps, and charts to help us visualize the change taking place in the age of globalization, this is a fascinating read for both the student studying immigration patterns and the general reader who wishes to be more well-informed from a quantitative perspective. Daniels places more recent cases of migration in the Americas within the rich history of the continents pre-colonialism. This invaluable resource is filled with maps and charts designed to help the reader see patterns that surface when studying the movement of peoples over time.

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