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Author:

Klapper, Melissa R.

Title:

Small strangers : the experiences of immigrant children in America, 1880-1925 / Melissa R. Klapper.

Publisher:

Ivan R. Dee,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xix, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Immigrant children--United States.
United States--History--History--19th century.
United States--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-209) and index.

Contents:

Childhood and immigrants : changing ideas at the turn of the century -- Landscape of early childhood -- At school, at work, at home, at play -- Adolescent years -- After the door closed : the effects of restrictive legislation and the Depression -- Immigrant children and modern America.

Series:

American childhoods

ISBN:

1566637333 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781566637336 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76141429

LCCN:

2006036831

Locations:

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

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)