| Title | Distant magnets : expectations and realities in the immigrant experience, 1840-1930 / edited by Dirk Hoerder and Horst Rössler.
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| Published | New York : Holmes & Meier, 1993.
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| Description | 312 p. ; 24 cm.
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| Series | Ellis Island series
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| ISBN | 0-8419-1302-1 (acid-free paper) : $35.00 (est.) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | 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 / Matja^D&z Klemen^D&ci^D&c -- 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.
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| Subjects | Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Immigrants -- Europe -- Attitudes.
Immigrants -- Europe -- History.
Immigrants -- United States -- Attitudes.
Immigrants -- United States -- History.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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| Other Authors | Hoerder, Dirk.
Rössler, Horst.
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| LC Card Number | 91-33415//r93 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: JV 6450 D614
mq30216: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 23103] |
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