From all points : America's immigrant West, 1870s-1952 / Elliott Robert Barkan.

Author/creator Barkan, Elliott Robert
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxix, 598 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Minorities--West (U.S.). --History.
Immigrants--West (U.S.). --History.
Pioneers--West (U.S.). --History.
Cultural pluralism--West (U.S.). --History.
Acculturation--West (U.S.). --History.
Racism--West (U.S.). --History.
West (U.S.)--Emigration and immigration. --History.
West (U.S.)--History.
West (U.S.)--Ethnic relations.
West (U.S.)--Social conditions.

SeriesAmerican West in the twentieth century
American West in the twentieth century. ^A682452
Contents Immigrant stories from the West -- The draw of the late-nineteenth-century West -- Where in the West were they? -- Targets of racism : Chinese and others on the mainland and Hawaiʻi -- The Scandinavians and step migration -- The German presence -- Proximity of homeland : the Mexicans -- In the year 1903 -- Foreshadowing twentieth-century patterns -- Immigrant stories and the West in the 1900s -- Who came? -- The Dillingham commission and the West -- The continuing evolution of immigration and naturalization issues and policies (Asians) -- Miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs : Europeans compete with Europeans (Greeks and others) -- Land, labor, and immigrant communities : Hawaiʻi and the mainland (Asians, Portuguese, Armenians, and Scandinavians) -- Newcomers, old and new (Italians, Basques, French, and Mexicans) -- The First World War and Americanization -- State and federal laws and decisions, 1917-1920 -- The early 1920s : threshold of momentous changes -- A world of peoples : the 1920s and 1930s -- Demographic trends : a changing West and changing Westerners -- Institutionalizing the quota system : 1924 -- Divided yet interlinked : the rural West -- Filipinos : the newer immigrant wave bridging the rural and urban West -- Divided yet interlinked : the urban West in the interwar years -- Urban landscapes and ethnic encounters -- From "reoccupation" to repatriation : Mexicans in the Southwest between the wars -- Darker turns during the interwar years : workers and refugees -- Aliens and race issues on the eve of the Second World War -- Interwar or interlude? twilight and dawn in the West -- Voices from America on the eve of war -- War : against all those of Japanese descent -- The Second World War's other enemy aliens : Italians and Germans -- The homefront in wartime : preface to an era of change -- Wartime and postwar agricultural issues : land, labor, growers, and unions -- Immigrants and ethnics in the postwar years -- The Cold War heats up : the politics of immigration, 1950-1952 -- Dora and the harbinger of coming events -- Looking back on America's immigrant West.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 575-584) and index.
LCCN 2006032173
ISBN9780253348517 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN025334851X (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks F596.2.B37 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold