European Immigrants in the American West: Community Histories / Edition 1

by Frederick C. Luebke

Overview

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, immigrants from Spain, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Germany, England, and other European countries settled all across the American West. This collection of essays explores the rural and urban settlement patterns of these groups, their comparative histories, and the maintenance of their communities. Europeans came to the West from all directions via both coasts and Mexico. Luebke provides tables illustrating the distribution of foreign-born persons in the West and first- and second-generation immigrants by country of origin in the region.

In addition to the volume editor, contributors include Henry Warner Bowden, Robert C. Ostergren, Dean L. May, David M. Emmons, Dino Cinel, William Toll, Anna Zellick, Carol K. Coburn, Josef J. Barton, and Royden K. Loewen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826319920
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	12/01/1998
Series:	Historians of the Frontier and American West
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

." . . an eclectic collection of essays . . . [the authors] plot a direct and meticulous course through time and event, even as they provoke deeper thought about humans' primal drives and devotions."

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