Small Strangers : The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880-1925 Hardback
by Melissa R. Klapper
Part of the American Childhoods Series series
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Children are the largely neglected players in the great drama of American immigration.
In one of history's most remarkable movements of people across national borders, almost twenty-five million immigrants came to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—from Mexico, Japan, and Canada as well as the more common embarkation points of southern and eastern Europe.
Many of them were children. Together with the American-born children of immigrants, they made up a significant part of turn-of-the-century U.S. society. Small Strangers recounts and interprets their varied experiences to illustrate how immigration, urbanization, and industrialization—all related processes—molded modern America.
Growing up in crowded tenements, insular mill towns, rural ethnic enclaves, or middle-class homes, as they came of age they found themselves increasingly caught between Old World expectations and New World demands.
The encounters of these children with ethnic heritage, American values, and mass culture helped shape the twentieth century in a United States still known symbolically around the world as a nation of immigrants.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Ivan R Dee, Inc
- Publication Date:26/06/2007
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- ISBN:9781566637336
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Ivan R Dee, Inc
- Publication Date:26/06/2007
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- ISBN:9781566637336