The Uprooted

by Oscar Handlin

Book Overview

The Uprooted is a rare book, combining powerful feeling and long-time study to give us the shape and the feel of the immigrant experience rather than just the facts. It elucidates the hopes and the yearnings of the immigrants that propelled them out of their native environments to chance the hazards of the New World. It traces the profound imprint they made upon this world and how they, in turn, were changed by it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316343137
• ISBN13: 9780316343138
• Release Date: August 1973
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

This one has been around for a long time

but that's because it's a lucid little book. It reaches a general audience, particularly useful for high school and undergraduate college students.

The #1 'Must Read' For Any Serious U.S. Genealogist

If you want to feel what your ancestors felt after they landed, this is the book for you.I have read many, many books of this type, and Handlin's is still the best.He looks at the Great Migration from the point of the impact on the immigrants and their children, rather than the impact on Canadian and United States cultures.This book goes into areas that the documentaries that we've all seen, do not. This should be the primer for anyone who is going to read about conditions in the countries that their ancestors came to the US and Canada from. Without this piece, what went before won't make as much sense.Dispells the theory that we were taught in the 60s and 70s, that the immigrants came because they wanted to, and this was to them, the land of rags to riches. Handlin points out that if their very lives had nott been at stake, the vast majority would never have made the move.