Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Tables, Charts, and Maps

Preface to the Second Edition

Part I: Colonial America

1.   Overseas Migration from Europe

2.   English Immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England

3.   Slavery and Immigrants from Africa

4.   Other Europeans in Colonial America

5.   Ethnicity and Race in American Life

Part II: The Century of Immigration (1820–1924)

6.   Pioneers of the Century of Immigration: Irish, Germans, and Scandinavians

7.   From the Mediterranean: Italians, Greeks, Arabs, and Armenians

8.   Eastern Europeans: Poles, Jews, and Hungarians

9.   Minorities from Other Regions: Chinese, Japanese, and French Canadians

10.   The Triumph of Nativism

Part III: Modern Times

11.   Migration in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1921–1945

12.   From the New World: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans

13.   Changing the Rules: Immigration Law, 1948–1980

14.   The New Asian Immigrants

15.   Caribbeans, Central Americans, and Soviet Jews

16.   The 1980s and Beyond

17.   Immigration in an Age of Globalization

Acknowledgments

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Additional Bibliography

Index

Photo Section

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher