Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration

by Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers

Book Overview

A comprehensive overview of the immigration and assimilation into America of European, Asian, and Latin American peoples from 1607 to 1999. The text has been expanded to incorporate research on women immigrants, the new refugees, and the continuing asylum crisis of the 1990s.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231111894
• ISBN13: 9780231111898
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Really good concise history of immigration

Dinnerstein and Reimers provide an easy to read summyar of American immigration from the conolain immigration to the present. It covers important immigration from Europe, Asia and Mexico such as public reaction, adjusment problems and immigration laws. It provides a great deal information about collective ethnic groups and their positions on domestic and international issues.

Concise and Comprehensive

Dinnerstein and Reimers presents a comprehensive overview of immigrants in the United States from 1607 until the present. Ethnic Americans covers the triumph and struggle of European, Latin America, Asian immigrants as they seek social, economic and political freedom in the United States. Examines the assimilation of immigrants despite facing racism and prejudice in the new world. This book is truly a historical, scholarly work but a readable book for everyone interested in the history of immigrants in the United States.