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Table of Contents of
A Pictorial History of Immigration

by
Oscar Handlin

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Contents


  I.  FROM THE BEGINNING TO 1820  1
      1. Even the Indians Were Newcomers  3
      2. The Old World Spreads Out  9
      3. The English Heritage  21
      4. The Varied Breeds of New Men  37
      5. The Spaniards and French on the Frontiers  54
      6. Immigrants in Bondage  61
      7. The Revolution and American Nationality  67

 II.  PEASANTS IN A NEW WORLD (1820-1880)  75
      1. Land of Liberty  76
      2. The Destruction of Peasant Life  86
      3. Crossing by Sail  94
      4. The Exodus from Ireland  110
      5. The Germans  127
      6. From the North  138
      7. The Chinese  153
      8. The Frontiers of Farm and City   160
      9. The Civil War and Its Aftermath  168

III.  THE GREAT MIGRATION (1880-1930)  175
      1. Old Streams in New Channels  176
      2. The East European Jews  200
      3. The Italians  222
      4. The Slavic Peoples  235
      5. Out of the Old Ottoman Empire  248
      6. From Across the Borders  257
      7. The Japanese and Other Orientals   264
      8. The Prairie and the Metropolis  270
      9. Closing the Gates  279

 IV.  THE REFUGEES (1930-Present)  285
      1. War and Totalitarianism  286
      2. Fugitives from Dictatorship  294
      3. Postwar Migration  301

  V.  IMMIGRANT CONTRIBUTIONS  311

         Bibliography  329
         Index  334

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