Ethnic Americans: Immigration and American Society

Leonard Dinnerstein and David Reimers

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Paper, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14337-0
$27.50 / £19.00

fifth edition
January, 2009
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14336-3
$79.50 / £55.00

List of Tables

Preface

Introduction

1. The Beginnings: Immigration to America, by 1492 to the 1820s

2. An Expanding Population: Immigration from 1830 to the 1890s

3. A New Wave of Immigrants, by 1890s–1920s

4. Ethnic Conflict and Immigration Restriction

5. The Door Opens Again: Immigration from the Eastern Hemisphere, by World II to 2008

6. Close Neighbors: Immigrants from the Western Hemisphere, by World War II to 2008

7. Confronting Immigration

Bibliographic Essay

Appendix 1 Immigration By Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, by 1820 to 2006

Appendix 2 Provisions of the Major United States Immigration Laws and Programs

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• Geography

About the Author

Leonard Dinnerstein is professor emeritus of history at the University of Arizona. David M. Reimers is professor emeritus of history at New York University and the author of Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People.

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