The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People

by Oscar Handlin

Overview

The Uprooted is a rare book, combining powerful feeling and long-time study to give us the shape and the feel of the immigrant experience rather than just the facts. It elucidates the hopes and the yearnings of the immigrants that propelled them out of their native environments to chance the hazards of the New World. It traces the profound imprint they made upon this world and how they, in turn, were changed by it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316343138
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	08/30/1973
Series:	Uprooted , #1
Pages:	333
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.78(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface to New Edition	ix
	Introduction	3
1	Peasant Origins	7
2	The Crossing	34
3	Daily Bread	58
4	New Worlds, New Visions	85
5	Religion as a Way of Life	105
6	The Ghettos	129
7	In Fellow Feeling	152
8	Democracy and Power	180
9	Generations	203
10	The Shock of Alienation	231
11	Restriction	255
12	Promises	268
13	After Two Decades	274
14	Encounters with Evidence	300
	Acknowledgments	331