Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880-1925

by Melissa R. Klapper and Melissa R. Klapper

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566637333
• ISBN13: 9781566637336
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.3"