Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum U.S. 1840-1860

by Joseph P. Ferrie

Book Overview

The first great wave of European migration to the United States before the Civil War transformed both the migrants themselves and the country they entered. The extent of this transformation has been difficult to gauge without information on migrants before and after their departure from Europe. Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum US 1840-1860 provides the first detailed look at how these immigrants were changed by their relocation and how the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195109341
• ISBN13: 9780195109344
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"