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  • The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity
    Ronald H Bayor
    Scholarship on immigration to America is a coin with two sides: it asks both how America changed immigrants, and how they changed America. Were the immigrants uprooted from their ancestral homes, leaving everything behind, or were they transplanted, bringing many aspects of their culture with them? Although historians agree with the transplantation concept, the notion of the me...
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  • Neighbors in Conflict
    Ronald H Bayor
    Millions of immigrants seeking a better life came to New York City in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ronald H. Bayor's study details how the relative tranquility among the city's four major ethnic groups was disturbed by economic depression, political divisions arising out of ties with the Old Country, and factional strife stirred up by local politicians seekin...
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  • Encountering Ellis Island
    Ronald H Bayor
    America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892-1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control of the federal government and systematizing the entry process. Encountering Ellis Island introd...
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  • Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta
    Ronald H. Bayor / Ronald HBayor
    Atlanta is often cited as a prime example of a progressive New South metropolis in which blacks and whites have forged 'a city too busy to hate.' But Ronald Bayor argues that the city continues to bear the indelible mark of racial bias. Offering the first comprehensive history of Atlanta race relations, he discusses the impact of race on the physical and institutional developme...
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  • The New York Irish
    Ronald H Bayor
    The New York Irish tells the sweeping story of these immigrants and their descendants. From the first Irish residents of Dutch New Amsterdam to the politically influential United Irish exiles a century later, from the gallant 'Union Green' patriots in the Civil War to the dramatic rise and fall of Irish political dominance in the twentieth century, the history of the Irish in N...
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    58,17 €