Ronald H Bayor

Gebundenes Buch

Encountering Ellis Island

How European Immigrants Entered America

Beschreibung

Encountering Ellis Island lays bare the profound and sometimes-victorious story of people chasing the American Dream: leaving everything behind, facing a new language and a new culture, and starting a new American life.

Autor

Ronald H. Bayor is a professor emeritus of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and former president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. He is author of Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941, and coeditor of The New York Irish, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781421413679
• ISBN-10: 1421413671
• Artikelnr.: 40201151