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Title:

Distant magnets : expectations and realities in the immigrant experience, 1840-1930 / edited by Dirk Hoerder and Horst Rössler.

Publisher:

Holmes & Meier,

Copyright Date:

1993

Description:

312 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Immigrants--United States--History.
Immigrants--United States--Attitudes.
United States--History.--History.
Immigrants--Europe--History.
Immigrants--Europe--Attitudes.
Europe--History.--History.
Immigranten.
Verwachtingen.

Other Authors:

Hoerder, Dirk.
Rössler, Horst.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

From dreams to possibilities : the secularization of hope and the quest for independence / Dirk Hoerder -- Paris : city of light and shadow / Nancy L. Green, Laura Levine Frader, and Pierre Milza -- Vienna around 1900 : images, expectations, and experiences of labor migrants / Michael John and Albert Lichtblau -- America and the Ruhr Basin in the expectations of Polish peasant migrants / Anna Reczyńska -- Across the ocean or over the border : expectations and experiences of Italians from Piedmont in New Jersey and southern France / Franco Ramella -- The dream of independence : the "America" of England's North Staffordshire potters / Horst Rössler -- Scandinavian migrants' images and the Americanization of the work process / Claudius H. Riegler -- Hungarian images of America : the sirens' song of tinkling dollars / Julianna Puskás -- Images of America among Slovene and other Yugoslav migrants / Matjaz̆ Klemenc̆ic̆ -- From "promised land" to "bitter land" : Italian migrants and the transformation of a myth / Gianfausto Rosoli -- From myth to reality : America in the eyes of East European peasant migrant laborers / Ewa Morawska -- Paddy's paradox : emigration to America in Irish imagination and rhetoric / Kerby A. Miller.

Series:

Ellis Island series

ISBN:

9780841913028 (acid-free paper)
0841913021 (acid-free paper)

LCCN:

91033415

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)