The great departure : mass migration from Eastern Europe and the making of the free world /
Zahra, Tara,
The great departure : mass migration from Eastern Europe and the making of the free world / Tara Zahra. - First published as a Norton paperback, with a new epilogue. - 404 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-381) and index.
"Not a golden country" -- Travel agents on trial -- "The man farthest down" -- Happy and unhappy returns -- The first final solution -- Work will set you free -- The freedom train -- Free to stay or go -- Against the world.
Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations in human history, irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. As villages emptied and the fear of depopulation ran rampant, anxiety over "American fever" existed alongside the promise of a brighter social and economic future. On both sides of the ocean lives were transformed by these decades of mass departure. Tara Zahra's sweeping history--with a timely new epilogue on today's refugee crisis--offers insight into issues of global migration that remain of crucial importance.
0393353729 9780393353723
2018300317
East Europeans--Migration--History.
East Europeans--History.--America
Immigrants--History.--America
Europe, Eastern--Emigration and immigration--History.
America--Emigration and immigration--History.
JV7597 / .Z34 2017
304.87047
The great departure : mass migration from Eastern Europe and the making of the free world / Tara Zahra. - First published as a Norton paperback, with a new epilogue. - 404 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-381) and index.
"Not a golden country" -- Travel agents on trial -- "The man farthest down" -- Happy and unhappy returns -- The first final solution -- Work will set you free -- The freedom train -- Free to stay or go -- Against the world.
Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations in human history, irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. As villages emptied and the fear of depopulation ran rampant, anxiety over "American fever" existed alongside the promise of a brighter social and economic future. On both sides of the ocean lives were transformed by these decades of mass departure. Tara Zahra's sweeping history--with a timely new epilogue on today's refugee crisis--offers insight into issues of global migration that remain of crucial importance.
0393353729 9780393353723
2018300317
East Europeans--Migration--History.
East Europeans--History.--America
Immigrants--History.--America
Europe, Eastern--Emigration and immigration--History.
America--Emigration and immigration--History.
JV7597 / .Z34 2017
304.87047