Coming to America or A Nation of Immigrants

Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life

Author: Roger Daniels

With a timely new chapter on immigration in the current age of globalization, a new Preface, and new appendixes with the most recent statistics, this revised edition is an engrossing study of immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present.

San Francisco Chronicle

From almost every corner of the globe, in numbers great and small, America has drawn people whose contributions are as varied as their origins. Historians have spent much of the last generation investigating the separate pieces of that great story. Now historian Roger Daniels has crafted a work that does justice to the whole.

Daily Herald

Perhaps the most authoritative and readable single-volume history of immigration yet written. Nationality by nationality, Daniels traces the migration of refugees to this country as far back as the year 1500.

Booknews

A broad historical overview of immigration to America from 1500 to the present that is informal, current in scholarship, comfortably written, and generous in spirit. Daniels (history, U. of Cincinnati) includes slavery, the successive waves of ethnic immigration, and the 20th century migrations of refugees within the context of evolving capitalism and world events. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Tables, Charts, and Maps
	Preface to the Second Edition
Pt. I	Colonial America
1	Overseas Migration from Europe	3
2	English Immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England	30
3	Slavery and Immigrants from Africa	53
4	Other Europeans in Colonial America	66
5	Ethnicity and Race in American Life	101
Pt. II	The Century of Immigration (1820-1924)
6	Pioneers of the Century of Immigration: Irish, Germans, and Scandinavians	121
7	From the Mediterranean: Italians, Greeks, Arabs, and Armenians	185
8	Eastern Europeans: Poles, Jews, and Hungarians	212
9	Minorities from Other Regions: Chinese, Japanese, and French Canadians	238
10	The Triumph of Nativism	265
Pt. III	Modern Times
11	Migration in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1921-1945	287
12	From the New World: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans	307
13	Changing the Rules: Immigration Law, 1948-1980	328
14	The New Asian Immigrants	350
15	Caribbeans, Central Americans, and Soviet Jews	371
16	The 1980s and Beyond	388
17	Immigration in an Age of Globalization	409
	App. I	453
	App. II	455
	App. III	457
	Notes	461
	Selected Bibliography	477
	Additional Bibliography	487
	Acknowledgments	493
	Index	495

New interesting textbook: Economía Hoy

A Nation of Immigrants

Author: John F Kennedy

Throughout his presidency, John F. Kennedy was passionate about the issue of immigration reform. He believed that America is a nation of people who value both tradition and the exploration of new frontiers, people who deserve the freedom to build better lives for themselves in their adopted homeland. This modern edition of his posthumously published, timeless work—with a new introduction by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and a foreword by Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League—offers the late president's inspiring suggestions for immigration policy and presents a chronology of the main events in the history of immigration in America.

As continued debates on immigration engulf the nation, this paean to the importance of immigrants to our nation's prominence and success is as timely as ever.